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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... evaluate risk reduction programmes , and more effective engagement of sectors such as transport , education and finance to capitalize on the potential for greatly reducing popula- tion exposures . The chapter also highlights important ...
... risk factor reductions that are evaluated . ( theoretical | minimum ) CHOOSING AND DEFINING RISKS TO HEALTH The risk factors assessed. Defining and Assessing Risks to Health 19 LIST OF MEMBER STATES BY WHO REGION MORTALITY STRATUM.
... Evaluating these risks must take place within a much broader context . People's risk perceptions are based on a diverse array of information that they have processed on risk factors ( sometimes called hazards ) and technologies , as ...
... evaluated . The following is a well - known example from occupational health , which shows how the choice of risk measure can make a technology appear less or more risky to health ( 21 ) . Between 1950 and 1970 , coal mining in the USA ...
... evaluate the effectiveness of disease control programmes . Perceptions of disease , use of health services and reasons for non - compliance are some areas often studied ( 37 ) . For communicable diseases , it is important to ...