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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... Environmental risks Unsafe water , sanitation and hygiene Urban air pollution Indoor smoke from solid fuels Lead exposure Climate change Other environmental risks to health Selected occupational risks Work - related risk factors for ...
... Environmental risks 123 Smoking 123 127 Unsafe water , sanitation , and hygiene 127 Occupational risk factors 129 Health practices Combining risk reduction strategies Policy implications 130 Unsafe health care injections 130 131 137 ...
... environmental factors 67 Table 4.7 Table 4.8 Selected major risks to health : occupational hazards Selected other risks to health 73 79 Table 4.9 Attributable mortality by risk factor , level of development and sex , 2000 Table 4.10 ...
... environmental risk factors ( % DALYS in each subregion ) Figure 4.8 Amount and patterns of burden of disease in developing and developed countries Figure 4.9 Global distribution of burden of disease attributable to 20 leading selected ...
... environmental problems . It shows how the steps generally involved in environmental risk assessment can be adapted to apply more specifically to the analysis of health risks , and it explains the benefits of comparing different risks to ...