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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... levels and choosing counterfactuals 22 Estimating current and future disease and injury burden 22 Estimating risk factor - burden relationships Estimates of avoidable burden Estimating the joint effects of multiple risks 2222 23 23 24 ...
... levels and poverty Potential impact on risk factor levels of shifting poverty distributions Burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors Childhood and maternal undernutrition Underweight Iron deficiency Iodine ...
... level of development ( % DALYS for each cause ) , 2000 Annex Table 8 Distribution of attributable mortality and DALYs by risk factor , age and sex , 2000 218 220 223 Annex Table 9 Annex Table 10 Attributable mortality by risk factor , level ...
... level of development and sex , 2000 Table 4.10 Attributable DALYS by risk factor , level of development and sex , 2000 Table 4.11 Ranking of estimated attributable and avoidable burdens of 10 leading selected risk factors 86 87 91 Table ...
... levels could bring about large benefits . In order to know which interventions and strategies to use , governments must first be able to assess and compare the magnitude of risks accurately . The subject of risk assess- ment is thus a ...