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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... effects of multiple risks 2222 23 23 24 Estimates of uncertainty CHAPTER 3 PERCEIVING RISKS Changing perceptions of risk Questioning the science in risk assessment Emerging importance of risk perceptions Risk perceptions Defining and ...
... effects of selected risk factors Estimates of avoidable burden The need for cost - effectiveness analyses 39 42 43 235 ! 47 49 50 50 51 52 52 52 54 54 55 55 56 57 57 58 60 60 61 61 62 63 64 64 65 66 67 68 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 75 76 ...
... effects of selected interventions in subregion AFR - D Cost and effects of selected interventions in subregion AMR - B Case studies of distribution shifting and cardiovascular disease in Finland and Japan 132 138 148 Figure 6.2 ...
... effects of selected major health risks , on a global scale and in a comparable fashion . Most of these results have been briefly referred to in this overview . An introduction to the generic approach is provided , followed by a ...
... effects of interventions . A strategy to protect the environment of the child is cost - effective in all settings . The components include micronutrient supplementation , treatment of diarrhoea and pneumonia , and disinfection of water ...