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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... cancer . The report shows that obesity is killing about 220 000 men and women a year in the United States of America and Canada alone , and about 320 000 men and women in 20 countries of Western Europe . High blood pressure and high ...
... cancers as well as heart disease , stroke and other serious illnesses . The report traces the rapid evolution of the ... cancer , liver disease , epilepsy , motor vehicle accidents , and homicide and other intentional injuries . Until ...
... cancers , and the deliberate use of microbial agents to cause harm through terrorism or warfare . More generally , the generation and application of new knowledge about diseases and their control has played a vital role in improving the ...
... cancers , heart disease , stroke , mental illness , and diabetes and other conditions linked to obesity . Already com- mon in industrialized nations , they now have ominous implications for many low and middle income countries which are ...
... cancer than those who do not smoke , their relative risk is 15 . • Risk can mean a consequence . For example , what is the risk from driving Hazard - an inherent property , for example of a chemical , that provides while drunk ...