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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... disease in developing and developed countries Figure 4.9 Global distribution of burden of disease attributable to 20 ... heart disease and work - related stress 75 Box 4.6 Risk factors for tuberculosis 77 Box 4.7 Genetics and ...
... disease . All are much more common in poor countries and communities than elsewhere . As with underweight , these ... heart disease , stroke , diabe- tes mellitus , and many forms of cancer . The report shows that obesity is killing ...
... heart disease , stroke and other serious illnesses . The report traces the rapid evolution of the tobacco epidemic by showing that the esti- mated number of attributable deaths in the year 2000 - 4.9 million - is over one million more ...
... Diseases such as cancers , heart disease , stroke and diabetes are increasing in prominence . This trend is particularly serious for many low and middle income countries which are still dealing with the traditional problems of poverty ...
... diseases such as cancers , heart disease , stroke , mental illness , and diabetes and other conditions linked to obesity . Already com- mon in industrialized nations , they now have ominous implications for many low and middle income ...