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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... proportion of HIV / AIDS deaths attributable to unsafe sex range from 13 % in East Asia and the Pacific to 94 % in Central America . Globally , about 2.9 million deaths are attributable to unsafe sex , most of these deaths occurring in ...
... proportion was greatest in the Americas and Europe . Alcohol was estimated to cause , worldwide , 20-30 % of oesophageal cancer , liver disease , epilepsy , motor vehicle accidents , and homicide and other intentional injuries . Until ...
... proportion of salt and other unhealthy components in foods ; stricter environmental controls and ambitious energy policies ; and stronger health promotion and health safety campaigns . This is undoubtedly a radical approach . It ...
... proportion of the world's population faces relatively low risk from most infectious diseases . However , although the risk factors considered in this report do not include pathogens such as bacteria , viruses and parasites , these ...
... proportion of disease burden in industrial- REFERENCES ized countries . In middle income countries these risk factors already contribute to the double bur- den of risks to health , and they are also of grow- ing importance in low income ...