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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... gains from improved access to water and sanitation in subregions AFR - D and EMR - D 128 Table 5.3 Cost - effective interventions 134 FIGURES Figure 2.1 Example of distributional transitions for blood pressure and for tobacco smoking 12 ...
... gain in healthy life 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 ...
... gains can be made for relatively modest expenditures . It suggests that at least an extra decade of healthy life ... gain another five years or so of healthy life . Although there are many possible definitions of the word " risk " , it ...
... gains can be made for relatively modest expenditures on interventions . However , the maximum possible gains for the resources that are available will be attained only through careful consideration of the costs and effects of ...
... gains , particularly in developing countries , ought to involve a question of balance . It is a balance between the priority of sharply reducing the burden from exposures such as underweight and poor water and sanitation , which are ...