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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... causes 13 Assessing population - wide risks as well as high - risk individuals 15 Including risks that act together to cause disease 15 Using best available evidence to assess certain and probable risks to health 16 Assessing avoidable ...
... cause , sex and mortality stratum in WHO Regions , estimates for 2001 186 Annex Table 3 Burden of disease in DALYS by cause , sex and mortality stratum in WHO Regions , estimates for 2001 192 Annex Table 4 Healthy life expectancy ( HALE ) ...
... causes of disease burden measured in DALYS 102 Table 5.2 Time gains from improved access to water and sanitation in subregions AFR - D and EMR - D 128 Table 5.3 Cost - effective interventions 134 FIGURES Figure 2.1 Example of ...
... causes of disease 18 Box 2.6 Box 3.1 Estimating the combined effects of cardiovascular disease risk factors Perceptions of risk by scientists and the general public 24 31 Box 3.2 Box 3.3 Men's sexual behaviour related to risk of HIV ...
... cause cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases . Mass immunization programmes eradicated the scourge of small- pox from ... causes of disease and death and the factors underlying them . It shows how the lifestyles of whole populations are ...