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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... disease and injury burden 22 Estimating risk factor - burden relationships Estimates of avoidable burden Estimating the joint effects of multiple risks 2222 23 23 24 Estimates of uncertainty CHAPTER 3 PERCEIVING RISKS Changing ...
... HEALTH Risks to health and socioeconomic status Rates of poverty across the world Relationships between risk factor levels and poverty Potential impact on risk factor levels of shifting poverty distributions Burden of disease and injury ...
... Burden of disease in DALYS by cause , sex and mortality stratum in WHO Regions , estimates for 2001 192 Annex Table ... disease - leading 10 selected risk factors and leading 10 diseases and injuries , high mortality developing countries ...
... disease burden measured in DALYS 102 Table 5.2 Time gains from improved access to water and sanitation in subregions ... disease 14 Figure 2.3 The importance of population distributions of exposure 17 Figure 2.4 Attributable and ...
Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life World Health Organization. Figure 4.7 Burden of disease attributable to selected environmental risk factors ( % DALYS in each subregion ) Figure 4.8 Amount and patterns of burden of disease in ...