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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... addition to the remaining , unconquered infectious diseases that have always afflicted poorer countries . In a number of ways , then , this report shows that the world is living dangerously - either because it has little choice , which ...
... addition , governments would be well advised to consider taking steps to reduce the salt content of processed foods on a population - wide basis , either through regulation or self - regulation . The chapter highlights the important ...
... protect their citizens . In addition , reducing risks will promote sustainable development and can also reduce inequities in society . CHAPTER ONE Protecting the People - This report deals with XX The World Health Report 2002.
... addition , there is an inherent imbalance in media information about risks : com- mon , major threats to health are usually not reported because they are already known , whereas rare or unusual threats to health are highly newsworthy ...
... addition to being more socially competent and showing higher self - esteem than adolescents without such a connection . Studies in the US have shown that these pro- tective factors also predict positive outcomes ( remaining connected to ...