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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... Deaths by 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 ...
... death on many millions of people . It is time for us to close ranks against this growing threat . Reducing risks to ... deaths have been avoided as a result . Legislation enables risks to health to be reduced in the workplace and on the ...
... deaths , is clearly related to changes in global dietary patterns and increased consumption of industrially processed fatty , salty and sugary foods . In the slums of today's megacities , we are seeing noncommunicable diseases caused by ...
... 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 share of the global burden of disease . For example , at least 30 % of all disease burden ...
... death - results from tobacco use , high blood pressure or cholesterol , or their combination . Overall , cholesterol causes more than 4 million premature deaths a year , tobacco causes almost 5 million , and blood pressure causes 7 ...