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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... individuals 15 Including risks that act together to cause disease 15 Using best available evidence to assess certain and probable risks to health 16 Assessing avoidable as well as attributable burden 17 Overview of risk assessment ...
... Individual - based versus population approaches to risk reduction 104 The role of government and legislation 105 Different ways of attaining the same goal 106 Technical considerations for cost - effectiveness analysis 106 Choosing ...
... individuals and whole populations of infectious diseases such as poliomyelitis , yellow fever , measles and diphtheria by providing protection against the causative agents . Countless millions of premature deaths have been avoided as a ...
... individuals , families , communities and whole populations . These are issues that deeply concern us all . This was reflected in the in - depth discus- sions involving ministers of health from almost all of WHO's Member States during ...
... individual action is necessary . For example , community action should be supported by nongovernmental organiza- tions , local groups , the media and others . At the same time , individuals should be empowered and encouraged to make ...