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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... impact on risk factor levels of shifting poverty distributions Burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors Childhood and maternal undernutrition Underweight Iron deficiency Iodine deficiency Vitamin A deficiency ...
... impact fractions by subregion for counterfactual scenario of population moving from living on < US $ 2 per day to > US $ 2 per day Table 4.2 Selected major risks to health : childhood and maternal undernutrition 51 52 Selected major ...
... factors underlying them . It shows how the lifestyles of whole populations are changing around the world , and the impact of these changes on the health of individuals , families ,. ix MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OVERVIEW.
... impact . From this selected group , the report identifies the top ten risks , globally and regionally , in terms of the burden of disease they cause . The ten leading risk factors globally are : underweight ; unsafe sex ; high blood ...
... impact of many of the risk factors can be reversed quickly , and most benefits will accrue within a decade . Even modest changes in risk factor levels could bring about large benefits . In order to know which interventions and ...