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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... infection and pregnancy Framing risks to health : choosing presentations 35 36 Box 3.4 Perceptions of risk in Burkina Faso 38 Box 3.5 Box 3.6 The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( BSE ) Inquiry , United Kingdom Strategies for fuelling ...
... 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 result . Legislation enables risks to ...
... infectious diseases that still afflict poorer countries . In my address to the World Health Assembly in May of this year , I warned that the world is living dangerously , either because it has little choice or because it is making the ...
... infectious diseases , such as viruses , bacteria , and antimicrobial resistance , are not included . Instead the report concentrates on a selection of risk factors - real risks to health , and often the actual causes of major diseases ...
... infections prevalent in Africa in 2001 are attributable to unsafe sex . In the rest of the world , the 2001 estimates for the proportion of HIV / AIDS deaths attributable to unsafe sex range from 13 % in East Asia and the Pacific to 94 ...