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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... members of which are listed in the Acknowledgements . Additional help and advice were appreciated from regional directors , executive directors and members of their staff at WHO headquarters , and senior policy advisers to the Director ...
... Member States , estimates for 2000 and 2001 Annex Table 5 Selected National Health Accounts indicators for all Member States , estimates for 1995 to 2000 198 202 Annex Table 6 Annex Table 7 Summary prevalence of selected risk factors by ...
Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life World Health Organization. LIST OF MEMBER STATES BY WHO REGION AND MORTALITY STRATUM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX 233 236 239 TABLES Table 4.1 Population impact fractions by subregion for counterfactual ...
... Member States during the World Health Assembly in Geneva in May of this year . These discussions helped shape this report , and are summarized in the opening chapter . They provided invaluable assessments of the risks to health that ...
... Member States took part in organized round table discussions on risks to health ( 1 , 2 ) . One after another , health ministers or their representatives spelt out the main risks confronting their country . Tobacco , alcohol , unhealthy ...