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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... mortality stratum in WHO Regions , estimates for 2001 192 Annex Table 4 Healthy life expectancy ( HALE ) in all ... mortality and DALYs by risk factor , age and sex , 2000 218 220 223 Annex Table 9 Annex Table 10 Attributable mortality ...
... MORTALITY STRATUM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX 233 236 239 TABLES Table 4.1 Population impact fractions by subregion for counterfactual scenario of population moving from living on < US $ 2 per day to > US $ 2 per day Table 4.2 Selected major ...
... mortality . A policy shift towards household water management appears to be the most attractive short - term water - related health intervention in developing countries . Preventive interventions to reduce the incidence of HIV ...
... mortality . Substantial agreement on what needs to be done exists between the international sci- entific community and those charged with improving public health . Strategies to achieve these potential gains , particularly in developing ...
... mortality among people who are so- cially integrated . The quality of social relation- ships in the home ( parent - child relations and spousal ties ) and the workplace ( employer- employee relations and coworker connections ) are now ...