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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... behaviour 103 Individual - based versus population 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 ...
... behaviour related to risk of HIV infection and pregnancy Framing risks to health : choosing presentations 35 36 Box 3.4 Perceptions of risk in Burkina Faso 38 Box 3.5 Box 3.6 The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( BSE ) Inquiry , United ...
... behaviours- especially when they receive accurate information from authorities they trust , and when they are supported through sensible laws , good health promotion programmes and vigor- ous public debate . Reducing risks to health is ...
... behaviour and how it may be changing around the world . Most of all they emphasize the global gap between the haves and the have - nots by showing just how much of the world's burden is the result of undernutrition among the poor and of ...
... behaviour a social norm , thus lowering risk in the entire population . Small shifts in some risks in the population ... behaviours and why some interventions are more acceptable and successful than others . Perceptions of risk are often ...