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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... global risk assessment Standardized comparisons and common outcome measures Assessing protective as well as hazardous factors xiii xiii xiv xvii xviii 134 7 9 9 10 11 12 13 Including proximal and distal causes 13 Assessing population ...
... Global patterns of risks to health Putting it all together - what is possible ? 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 ...
... Global distribution of burden of disease attributable to 20 leading selected risk factors Figure 4.10 Burden of disease attributable to 10 selected leading risk factors , by level of development and type of affected outcome Figure 4.11 ...
... global community . In one of the largest research projects WHO has ever undertaken , it tries to quantify some of the most important risks to health and to assess the cost - effectiveness of some of the measures to reduce them . The ...
... global dietary patterns and increased consumption of industrially processed fatty , salty and sugary foods . In the slums of today's megacities , we are seeing noncommunicable diseases caused by unhealthy diets and habits , side by side ...