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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... children under five years of age 112 Combined interventions to reduce risks in children under five years of age 113 Blood pressure and cholesterol 114 Blood pressure 115 Cholesterol 116 Combining interventions to reduce the risk of ...
... children by average daily household income ( < US $ 1 , US $ 1-2 and > US $ 2 per day ) , by subregion Figure 4.2 Burden of disease attributable to childhood and maternal undernutrition ( % DALYS in each subregion ) Figure 4.3 Burden of ...
... children , over three mil- lion of whom will die this year as a result . The other is that there are more than one billion adults worldwide who are overweight and at least 300 million who are clinically obese . Among these , about half ...
... children . The report shows that underweight remains a massive and pervasive problem in developing coun- tries , where poverty is a strong underlying determinant . All ages are at risk , but underweight is most prevalent among children ...
... child deaths in developing countries . In other words , the report says , deaths from under- weight every year rob the world's poorest children of an estimated total of 130 million years of healthy life . In terms of global risk factors ...