“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.” PeopleWorldFirstsHumansEnoughPovertyTechnologyEconomicConditionsDevelopmentDiseaseCapableFirst TimeCurrentsHuman ConditionIntegrationIlliteracyEconomic Integration Author:Clare Short
“If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over the range of variation in the conditions, and therefore will stifle the development of other advantageous factors until the conditions change sufficiently that it no longer is the winning factor. At this point, the whole population is ill prepared for the change, and may well perish entirely if the winning factor accidentally becomes the matching factor for a disease or a predator.” IfsWellsMayWholeWinningSuccessfulConditionsDevelopmentDiseasePreparedIllPopulationFactorsRangeVariationPredatorMatching Author:Erik Naggum
“The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.” MenHumansTodayInterestHuman BeingsBusinessExistenceBloodExampleDevelopmentMembersDiseasePressureCompetitionSpeciesManagersMore TimeNeurosisBarbarismGood ExamplesBlood PressureAtrophyHigh Blood PressureUlcersGastric Author:Konrad Lorenz
“When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.” ThinkingHas BeensStillsFacesHumanityAnimalDevelopmentDiseaseAnxietyInstitutionsStructureExtraordinaryDisappointmentInsecurityTransformedDreadGlobalization Author:Cornel West
“Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.” PeopleMadeNationsPresidentPovertyPolicyDevelopmentOffersDiseaseHungerDefenseForeign PolicyDiplomacyExtremismVacuumsPathwaysPillarsInstability Author:Barack Obama
“Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.” PeopleDevelopmentHealthyDiseaseYogaImpactIllAidsRecoveryIll Health Book:Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.” FightingPassionDevelopmentRight NowDiseaseFindingsResearchCancerMissionsCuresNastyMy PassionResearch And DevelopmentFighting Cancer Author:Judith Hill
“We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.” FirstsPurposeBeliefGoalCommonPovertyShareAchieveCenturyDevelopmentDiseaseBenefitsToolsTwentiesFundamentalsInequalityMillenniumIlliteracyCommon PurposeMillennium Development Goals Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.” MenYearsHas BeensStillsProblemPastScienceLyingDifficultGrowthMemoriesAnimalLearningMysteryDevelopmentDiseaseBehaviorDiscoveryRootsBasesFundamentalsAgingComplexesCellsBiologyNervesChemistryChemicalsNeverthelessSpectacularHeredityBreathtakingDifficult ProblemsRecent Past Author:H. Bentley Glass
“We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and disease. This concentration is made possible by the common function of nucleic acids as the molecular midwife of all reproductive particles. Indeed it is the nucleic acids which, in spite of their chemical obscurity, are giving to biology a unity which has so far been lacking, a chemical unity.” GivingYearsMadeCommonDevelopmentEssentialsDiseaseFunctionUnityFiftySpiteConcentrationBiologyChemicalsLackingParticlesAcidObscurityGeneticsHeredityMidwifeFermentation Author:C. D. Darlington
“We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.” ThinkingBodyCertainHealthDevelopmentPeriodsHealthyDiseaseIsolatedPhasesDisturbanceHealthy Body Author:Clifford Allbutt
“There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.” HumansRealCountryGrowthDemocracySecurityHealthDevelopmentHealthyDiseaseDignityTreatsCrisisInternationalPopulationSpreadSustainabilityNational SecurityNo HopeHuman DignitySustainable DevelopmentMalnutritionTacklingAssisting Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland