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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... cholesterol Obesity , overweight and high body mass Low fruit and vegetable intake Physical inactivity Sexual and reproductive health Unsafe sex Lack of contraception Addictive substances Smoking and oral tobacco use Alcohol use Illicit ...
... cholesterol 114 Blood pressure 115 Cholesterol 116 Combining interventions to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events 116 Low fruit and vegetable intake 118 Sexual and reproductive health 118 Unsafe sex and HIV / AIDS 118 Addictive ...
... cholesterol , tobacco and excessive alcohol consumption , obesity and physical inactivity . These risks , and the diseases linked to them , are now dominant in all middle and high income countries . The real drama now being played out ...
... cholesterol ; and obesity . Together , these account for more than one - third of all deaths worldwide . The report shows that a relatively small number of risks cause a huge number of prema- ture deaths and account for a very large ...
... cholesterol and obesity . Furthermore , more than three - quarters of cardiovascular disease- the world's leading cause of death - results from tobacco use , high blood pressure or cholesterol , or their combination . Overall , cholesterol ...