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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... MAJOR RISKS TO HEALTH Risks to health and socioeconomic status Rates of poverty across the world Relationships between risk factor levels and poverty Potential impact on risk factor levels of shifting poverty distributions Burden of ...
... major risks to health will promote sustainable development Reducing major risks to health can reduce inequities in society Governments need to prioritize and focus on the most important risks Exercising stewardship means fulfilling the ...
... major risks to health : childhood and maternal undernutrition 51 52 Selected major risks to health : other diet - related factors and physical inactivity 57 Selected major risks to health : sexual and reproductive health Selected major ...
... major advance in public health has involved the reduc- tion or the elimination of risk . Improvements in drinking - water sup- plies and sanitation during the 19th and 20th centuries were directly related to the control of the organisms ...
... major diseases - for which the means to reduce them are known , and produces some startling findings about their true impact . From this selected group , the report identifies the top ten risks , globally and regionally , in terms of ...