Frases de Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Fecha de nacimiento: 20. Abril 1939
Gro Harlem Brundtland es una política noruega miembro del Partido Laborista. Ocupó el cargo de primera ministra de Noruega en tres ocasiones .
Como gobernante, se enfrentó a una crisis económica severa en la década de 1980, donde implementó medidas de austeridad que le atrajeron impopularidad. Al obtener el cargo nuevamente en 1990, consolidó una imagen positiva en la vida política de su país, pero su objetivo principal, su postura sobre la incorporación de Noruega a la Unión Europea, fue derrotada. En el ámbito internacional, fue directora general de la Organización Mundial de la Salud de 1998 a 2003, y en 2007 fue nombrada Enviada Especial de las Naciones Unidas para el Cambio Climático.
Frases Gro Harlem Brundtland
„The global toll of mental illness and neurological disorders is staggering.“
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Note: A WHO report revealed that mental disorders are “among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide.
[http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102002530?q=Brundtland&p=par Awake! magazine 7/22 2002.]
„Nurses, as the key health professionals, are in a unique position to act as powerful advocates for a healthy planet. [... ] As nurses and midwives already constitute up to 80% of the qualified health workforce in most national health systems, they represent a potentially powerful force for bringing about the necessary changes to meet the needs of Health for All in the 21st century. Indeed, their contribution to health services covers the whole spectrum of health care [... ] It is clear that nurses are the backbone of most health care teams.“
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
At the International Council of Nurses Centennial Conference in June 1999. [http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102000802?q=Brundtland&p=par Awake! magazine 2000, 11/8]
„It's typically Norwegian to be good.“
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
New Years Eve Speech (1 January 1992)
„Tobacco is a communicated disease – communicated through marketing.“
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Sanam Luang, Bangkok, May 2000, cited in [https://smokefreepartnership.eu/our-policy-work/spotlight-on-the-fctc/spotlight-3-tobacco-industry-interference "Spotlight on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Article 5.3 Tobacco Industry Interference"] (page 2).
„[20th Century has been called] the century of extremes, [... ] in which human vices reached unfathomable depths. [She notes that it has been] a century of great progress [and in some places of] unprecedented economic growth. [At the same time, however, poor urban areas face a bleak future of] overcrowding and a disease pattern linked to poverty and an unhealthy environment.“
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Awake! magazine 1999, 12/8, article: The Most Profound Changes.
„We have an opportunity to launch a massive effort against infectious diseases.“
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
[http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102003763?q=Brundtland&p=par Awake! magazine 2003, 10/22]
