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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... injuries Work - related carcinogens Work - related airborne particulates Work - related ergonomic stressors Work - related noise Other risks to health Unsafe health care practices Abuse and violence Global patterns of risks to health ...
... injuries , high mortality developing countries , 2000 Annex Table 15 Major burden of disease - leading 10 selected risk factors and leading 10 diseases and injuries , low mortality developing countries , 2000 Annex Table 16 Major burden ...
... injuries 72 Box 4.4 Sharps injuries among health care workers 74 Box 4.5 Coronary heart disease and work - related stress 75 Box 4.6 Risk factors for tuberculosis 77 Box 4.7 Genetics and attributable and avoidable burden 78 Box 4.8 ...
... injuries . Until recently , all of these factors - blood pressure , cholesterol , tobacco , alcohol and obesity , and the diseases linked to them - had been thought to be most common in indus- trialized countries . Unfortunately , as ...
... injuries in many low income and middle income countries . Ministers clearly demonstrated their knowledge of the trends in major risks in their countries , and their willingness to take action to reduce them ( see Box 1.1 ) . This report ...