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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... physical inactivity High blood pressure High cholesterol Obesity , overweight and high body mass Low fruit and vegetable intake Physical inactivity Sexual and reproductive health Unsafe sex Lack of contraception Addictive substances ...
... physical inactivity 57 Selected major risks to health : sexual and reproductive health Selected major risks to health : addictive substances 62 64 Table 4.6 Selected major risks to health : environmental factors 67 Table 4.7 Table 4.8 ...
... physical inactivity . These risks , and the diseases linked to them , are now dominant in all middle and high income countries . The real drama now being played out is that they are becoming more prevalent in the developing world ...
... physical activity and less physical labour . The report finds that physical inactivity causes about 15 % of some cancers , diabetes and heart disease . Meanwhile , tobacco and alcohol are being marketed increasingly in low and middle ...
... physical activity and less physical labour . The television and the computer are two obvious reasons why people spend many more hours of the day seated and relatively inactive than a generation ago . The consumption of to- bacco ...