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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... intake Physical inactivity Sexual and reproductive health Unsafe sex Lack of contraception Addictive substances Smoking and oral tobacco use Alcohol use Illicit drug use Environmental risks Unsafe water , sanitation and hygiene Urban ...
... intake 118 Sexual and reproductive health 118 Unsafe sex and HIV / AIDS 118 Addictive substances Environmental risks 123 Smoking 123 127 Unsafe water , sanitation , and hygiene 127 Occupational risk factors 129 Health practices ...
... intake of them as part of diet is responsible for almost three million deaths a year from those diseases . At the same time , changes in living and working patterns have led to less physical activity and less physical labour . The ...
... intake , smoking and sexual behaviour . It also dis- cusses individual factors , such as genetics , and environmental factors including water and sanitation . The chapter says that many risk reduction strategies involve a component of ...
... intake and physical activity by assessing people with low levels of these factors . The important role of protective factors in adolescent health is outlined in Box 2.2 . INCLUDING PROXIMAL AND DISTAL CAUSES Risks to health do not occur ...