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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... coverage of a high - risk approach . A key challenge is finding the right balance be- tween population - wide and high - risk ap- proaches . Rose concluded that this will require a wider world view of ill - health , its causes and ...
... coverage tends to focus on human interest stories and news about dreaded diseases . In contrast , attention is not often given to common , chronic and low - level risks to health , such as passive exposure to tobacco smoke or poor ...
... coverage will prevent these infections , which represent a heavy bur- den in the health personnel . Stress at work has been shown in recent studies in industrialized nations to be associ- ated with cardiovascular disease , but the risks ...
... coverage and in accuracy of the reporting systems . Nevertheless , occupational fa- tality rates reported in industrializing countries are at least two to five times higher than rates reported in industrialized countries ( 76 ) . For ...
... coverage rather than to target specific groups at risk . In this respect , it is important for patients to recognize the symp- toms and know where to seek help , to receive the correct diagnosis and drug regimen , and to understand the ...