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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... occurring in many developing countries , such as those in sub - Saharan Africa and South - East Asia , results from fewer than five of the ten risks listed above . Underweight alone accounts for over three million childhood deaths a ...
... occurring in Africa . In both Africa and Asia , unsafe water , sanitation and hygiene , iron deficiency , and in- door smoke from solid fuels are among the ten leading risks for disease . All are much more common in poor countries and ...
... occurring in developing countries , according to the report . Worldwide , alcohol caused 1.8 million deaths , equal to 4 % of the global disease burden ; the proportion was greatest in the Americas and Europe . Alcohol was estimated to ...
... occurring . Some risks have already been reduced , but changes in patterns of consumption , particularly of food , alcohol and tobacco , around the world are creating a " risk transition " . Diseases such as cancers , heart disease ...
... occurs in isolation : many have their roots in complex chains of events spanning long periods of time . Each has its cause , and some have many causes . In this report , risk is defined as “ a probability of an adverse outcome , or a ...