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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... cardiovascular events 116 Low fruit and vegetable intake 118 Sexual and reproductive health 118 Unsafe sex and HIV / AIDS 118 Addictive substances Environmental risks 123 Smoking 123 127 Unsafe water , sanitation , and hygiene 127 ...
... cardiovascular disease in Finland and Japan 132 138 148 Figure 6.2 Implementing risk prevention 149 BOXES Box 1.1 Countries endorse the focus on risks to health 6 Box 2.1 What does risk mean ? 11 Box 2.2 Protective factors 13 Box 2.3 ...
... cardiovascular disease- the world's leading cause of death - results from tobacco use , high blood pressure or cholesterol , or their combination . Overall , cholesterol causes more than 4 million premature deaths a year , tobacco ...
... cardiovascular disease risks . The overall strategy would be based on a mix of community - wide interventions , such as salt reduction , and treatment - based interventions focusing on individuals whose risk of a cardiovascular event in ...
... cardiovascular disease was found to be cost - effective . Population - wide strategies to lower cholesterol by reducing salt intake are always very cost - effective both singly and in combination . In addition , governments would be ...