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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... Development of risk assessment Key goals of global risk assessment Standardized comparisons and common outcome ... developing countries Importance of risk communications 27 2 2 8 7 8 68858 29 30 31 32 34 35 36 36 37 38 Influence of ...
... developing countries , 2000 Annex Table 15 Major burden of disease - leading 10 selected risk factors and leading 10 diseases and injuries , low mortality developing countries , 2000 Annex Table 16 Major burden of disease - leading 10 ...
... developing and developed countries Figure 4.9 Global distribution of burden of disease attributable to 20 leading selected risk factors Figure 4.10 Burden of disease attributable to 10 selected leading risk factors , by level of development ...
... countries . The real drama now being played out is that they are becoming more prevalent in the developing world , where they create a double burden on top of the infectious diseases that still afflict poorer countries . In my address ...
... countries - if they are prepared to act boldly now . The report describes the amount of disease , disability and death in the world today that ... developing countries . In other , more developed , countries such as China xiii Introduction.