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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... adults worldwide who are overweight and at least 300 million who are clinically obese . Among these , about half a million people in North America and Western Europe combined will have died this year from obesity - related diseases ...
... adults worldwide who are over- weight and at least 300 million who are clinically obese . Among these , about half a million people in North America and Western Europe die from obesity - related diseases every year . So it is clear that ...
... adults . Obesity rates have risen threefold or even more in some parts of North America , Eastern Europe , the Middle East , the Pacific Islands , Australasia and China since 1980. Changes in food processing and production and in ...
... adults are : an opti- mistic outlook on life with a sense of purpose and direction , effective strategies for coping ... adult ( parent or teacher ) are committed to school , have a sense of spirituality and exhibit a significantly lower ...
... adult morbidity and mortality rates . Chronic illness in childhood , more common among children of manual workers , can have long - term consequences both for health and socioeconomic circumstances in later life . Slow growth in ...