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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... prevalence of selected risk factors by subregion , 2000 Selected population attributable fractions by risk factor , sex and level of development ( % DALYS for each cause ) , 2000 Annex Table 8 Distribution of attributable mortality and ...
... prevalence and relative risk 20 Figure 3.1 Hazards for dread and risk 2283 21 33 Figure 4.1 Prevalence of moderate underweight in children by average daily household income ( < US $ 1 , US $ 1-2 and > US $ 2 per day ) , by subregion ...
... prevalence of HIV / AIDS and moderate but popu- lation - wide shifts in major cardiovascular risk factors , such as blood pressure and high choles- terol levels . Sharing other countries ' successes and learning from their predicaments ...
... Prevalence of risk - the proportion of the population who are exposed to a particular risk . For example , the prevalence of smoking might be 25 % in a particular population . Sources : ( 1,2 ) . • • • the potential for harm ...
... prevalence of risky behav- iours . This is in addition to being more socially competent and showing higher self - esteem than adolescents without such a connection . Studies in the US have shown that these pro- tective factors also ...