The World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy LifeWorld Health Organization, 2002 - 248 pages The World Health Report 2002 measures the amount of disease, disability, and health in the world today that can be attributed to some of the most important risks to human health. Even more importantly, it also calculates how much of this present burden could be avoided in the next 10 years. The World Health Report 2002 represents one of the largest research projects ever undertaken by WHO, in collaboration with experts worldwide. Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of WHO, describes this report as a wake up call to the global community. The report quantifies some of the most important risks to human health and examines a range of methods to reduce them. The ultimate goal is to help governments of all countries to lower major risks to health, and thereby raise the healthy life expectancy of their populations. The risk factors range from underweight, unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene to high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, and obesity. The report's findings give an intriguing - and alarming - insight into not just the current causes of disease and death and the factors underlying them, but also into human patterns of living and how some may be changing around the world while others remain dangerously unchanged. Dr Brundtland says: This report helps every country in the world to see what measures it can take to reduce risks and promote healthy life for its own population. |
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... low- status occupations . Studying exposure to risk factors among poor ... child is cost - effective in all settings . The components include ... child mortality . A policy shift towards household water management appears to be the most ...
... reduced morbidity and delayed mortality among people who are so- cially integrated . The quality of social relation- ships in the home ( parent - child relations and spousal ties ) and the workplace ( employer- employee relations and ...
... child labour , dangerous chemicals and the dumping of waste products ... low and middle income countries . How should the media evaluate and ... low - level risks to health , such as passive exposure to tobacco smoke or poor levels of ...
... child abuse and neglect , substance Sources : ( 116 , 117 ) . abuse , and being young and male . In families , mari- tal discord , parental conflict , and low household socioeconomic status are important risks . In the community , low ...
... infant and child mortality ) , using interven- tions that were feasible to implement , of low cost , and with proven efficacy ( 25 , 26 ) . UNICEF's GOBI strategy of 1982 emerged from this . At its foundation were four child health ...