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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... Vitamin A deficiency Zinc deficiency Lack of breastfeeding Other diet - related risk factors and physical inactivity High blood pressure High cholesterol Obesity , overweight and high body mass Low fruit and vegetable intake Physical ...
... Vitamin A deficiency 111 Zinc deficiency 112 Other individual - based interventions focusing on children under five years of age 112 Combined interventions to reduce risks in children under five years of age 113 Blood pressure and ...
... Vitamin A , iodine , and zinc . Vitamin A deficiency is the lead- ing cause of acquired blindness in children . Iodine deficiency is probably the single most preventable cause of mental retardation and brain damage . Severe zinc ...
... vitamins and minerals . Underweight remains a pervasive problem in developing Table 4.2 Selected major risks to health : childhood and maternal undernutrition Risk factor Underweight Iron deficiency Vitamin A deficiency Zinc deficiency ...
... Vitamin A deficiency resulting from undernutrition is asso- ciated with less severe undernutrition . These analyses indicate that 50-70 % of the burden of diarrhoeal diseases , mea- sles , malaria and lower respiratory in- fections in ...