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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... expectancy ( HALE ) in all Member States , estimates for 2000 and 2001 Annex Table 5 Selected National Health Accounts indicators for all Member States , estimates for 1995 to 2000 198 202 Annex Table 6 Annex Table 7 Summary prevalence ...
... expectancy with removal of 20 leading risk factors by subregion Figure 4.13 Attributable DALYS in 2000 and avoidable DALYS in 2010 and 2020 following a 25 % risk factor reduction from 2000 , for 10 leading selected risk factors Figure ...
... expectancy of their populations . The picture that is taking shape from our research gives an intriguing- and alarming - insight into current causes of disease and death and the factors underlying them . It shows how the lifestyles of ...
... expectancy of their populations . The report says that very substantial health gains can be made for relatively modest expenditures . It suggests that at least an extra decade of healthy life could be within the grasp of the populations ...
... expectancy at birth in sub - Saharan Africa is currently estimated at 47 years ; without AIDS it is estimated that it would be around 62 years . Current estimates suggest that more than 99 % of the HIV infections prevalent in Africa in ...