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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... Estimating current risk factor levels and choosing counterfactuals 22 Estimating current and future disease and injury burden 22 Estimating risk factor - burden relationships Estimates of avoidable burden Estimating the joint effects of ...
... Estimates of the joint 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 ...
... 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 expectancy ( HALE ) in all Member States , estimates for 2000 and ...
... estimating the burden of disease and injury due to different risks " . The report makes key recommendations to help ... estimates that approximately 27 % of children in this age group are underweight . This caused an estimated 3.4 ...
... estimated that it would be around 62 years . Current estimates suggest that more than 99 % of the HIV infections prevalent in Africa in 2001 are attributable to unsafe sex . In the rest of the world , the 2001 estimates for the ...