 This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. |
| When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. |
| This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread. |
| Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children. |
| This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on. |
| Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases. |
| 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. |
| We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks. |
| Investing in health will produce enormous benefits. |
| 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. |
| Health is the core of human development. |
| In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance. |
| Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women. |
