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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... less physical activity and less physical labour . The report finds that physical inactivity causes about 15 % of some cancers , diabetes and heart disease . Meanwhile , tobacco and alcohol are being marketed increasingly in low and ...
... less than a " risk transition " which is causing an alarming increase in risk factors in middle and low income countries . Understanding why these changes are happening is vitally important . 4 The World Health Report 2002 The risk ...
... less visibly , often requiring years to be detectable . Nevertheless , as globalization continues to affect ... less physical activity and less physical labour . The television and the computer are two obvious reasons why people spend ...
... less common to assess impact at a population level by asking " of all the disease burden in this population , how much could be caused by this risk ? " Many factors are relevant in prioritizing strategies to reduce risks to health : the ...
... less susceptible to the influence of arbitrary choices of theoretical minima , and are likely to be the most reliable , as the dose- response is often least certain at low exposure levels . Figure 2.1 Example of distributional ...