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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... ( Chapters 2 & 4 ) and Patrick Vaughan ( Chapters 3 & 6 ) . The Overview and Chapter 1 were written by Thomson Prentice . All of the above contributed to Chapter 7. Chapter 5 was written by Tessa Tan - Torres Edejer , David Evans and ...
... chapters CHAPTER 1 PROTECTING THE PEOPLE Reducing the risks The risk transition CHAPTER 2 DEFINING AND ASSESSING RISKS TO HEALTH What are risks to health ? Why focus on risks to health ? Development of risk assessment Key goals of ...
... CHAPTER 4 QUANTIFYING SELECTED MAJOR RISKS TO HEALTH Risks to health and socioeconomic status Rates of poverty across the world Relationships between risk factor levels and poverty Potential impact on risk factor levels of shifting ...
... CHAPTER 6 STRENGTHENING RISK PREVENTION POLICIES 145 Choosing priority strategies for risk prevention 147 Population - based interventions or high - risk individual targets ? 147 Distal or proximal risks to health ? 148 Primary or ...
Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life World Health Organization. CHAPTER 7 PREVENTING RISKS AND TAKING ACTION Focusing on prevention means focusing on risks The world faces some common , large and certain risks to health Effective and ...