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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... interventions to reduce risks in children under five years of age 113 Blood pressure and cholesterol 114 Blood pressure 115 Cholesterol 116 Combining interventions to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events 116 Low fruit and vegetable ...
... interventions are available Narrowing the gap between potential and actual benefit : a key research priority Population - wide prevention strategies : key to risk reduction Government responsibility for health Reducing major risks to ...
... interventions 134 FIGURES Figure 2.1 Example of distributional transitions for blood pressure and for tobacco smoking 12 Figure 2.2 Causal chains of exposure leading to disease 14 Figure 2.3 The importance of population distributions of ...
... interventions in subregion AFR - D Cost and effects of selected interventions in subregion AMR - B Case studies of distribution shifting and cardiovascular disease in Finland and Japan 132 138 148 Figure 6.2 Implementing risk prevention ...
... interventions to counter some of the risk factors . In the report , an intervention is defined broadly as " any health action - any promo- tive , preventive , curative or rehabilitative activity where the primary intent is to improve ...