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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... measures Assessing protective as well as hazardous factors xiii xiii xiv xvii xviii 134 7 9 9 10 11 12 13 Including proximal and distal causes 13 Assessing population - wide risks as well as high - risk individuals 15 Including risks ...
... measures to reduce them . The ultimate goal is to help governments of all countries lower these risks and raise the healthy life expectancy of their populations . The picture that is taking shape from our research gives an intriguing ...
... measures it can take to reduce at least some risks and promote healthy life for its own population . I urge each and every one of these countries to consider urgently what actions are necessary and to commit themselves to carrying them ...
... measures . The chapter points out that , very often , the greatest burden of health risks is borne by the poor countries , and by the disadvantaged in all societies . The vast majority of threats to health are more commonly found in the ...
... measures . These include the criteria for choosing which key risks to tackle ; the right balance between efforts targeted on primary , secondary or subsequent preven- tion ; the management of uncertain risks ; and the related issue of ...