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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... Potential impact on risk factor levels of shifting poverty distributions Burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors Childhood and maternal undernutrition Underweight Iron deficiency Iodine deficiency Vitamin A ...
... potential and actual benefit : a key research priority Population - wide prevention strategies : key to risk reduction Government responsibility for health Reducing major risks to health will promote sustainable development Reducing ...
... . The key results of the analysis are summarized and discussed in terms of their potential to improve healthy life expectancy by focusing on causes of disease and injury xviii The World Health Report 2002 Summary of chapters.
... potential gains , particularly in developing countries , ought to involve a question of balance . It is a balance between the priority of sharply reducing the burden from exposures such as underweight and poor water and sanitation ...
... potential for health benefits by focusing on those risks , and it can help set agendas for research and policy action . The broader activity of risk analysis is a political activity as well as a scientific one and embraces public ...