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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... approaches to risk reduction 104 The role of government and legislation 105 Different ways of attaining the same goal 106 Technical considerations for cost - effectiveness analysis 106 Choosing interventions to reduce specific risks 108 ...
... approach to estimating the burden of disease and injury due to different risks " . The report makes key recommendations to help countries develop risk reduction poli- cies which , if implemented , will result in substantially more years ...
... approach to health risks . It points out that much scientific effort and most health resources today are directed towards treating disease , rather than preventing it . It argues that focusing on risks to health is the key to prevention ...
... approach and prevention versus treatment . Combinations of these two approaches are likely to be the best ways of improving health . With regard to policy implications , the chapter says that very substantial health gains can be made ...
... approach . It requires governments to see the value of shifting the main focus from the minority of high - risk individuals to include preventive measures that can be applied to the whole population . There are compelling reasons for ...