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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... Public policy 7.Quality of life 8. World health - trends I.Title II.Title : Reducing risks , promoting life . ISBN 92 4 156207 2 ( NLM Classification : WA 540.1 ) ISSN 1020-3311 O World Health Organization 2002 All rights reserved ...
... public controversy 40 40 Box 3.7 Junking science to promote tobacco 41 Box 4.1 Environmental tobacco smoke 66 Box 4.2 Housing and health 70 Box 4.3 Road traffic injuries 72 Box 4.4 Sharps injuries among health care workers 74 Box 4.5 ...
... public health has involved the reduc- tion or the elimination of risk . Improvements in drinking - water sup- plies and sanitation during the 19th and 20th centuries were directly related to the control of the organisms that cause ...
... health promotion programmes and vigor- ous public debate . Reducing risks to health is the responsibility of governments - but not only of govern- ments . It rightly remains a vital preoccupation of all people , in all populations , and ...
... healthy life for many millions of people . At the same time , governments will need to strengthen the scientific and empirical bases for their policies . They will have to improve public dialogue and com- munications , and develop ...