More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
Interpretation
Healthy families are essential for sustainable development on a global scale.
The quote by Gro Harlem Brundtland emphasizes the crucial role that healthy families and communities play in enabling social, economic, and environmental development. It suggests that without strong familial and communal bonds, the progress of nations and the well-being of societies are severely compromised, highlighting the interconnectedness of personal health and societal advancement.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about community service initiatives.
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
I always say about my daughters, they save me from my miserable self. They take me out, you know, a comedian, you could live in your head a lot. And you're writing and you're doubting. But when I'm with my kids and my family, it's all about them.
If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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