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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... Rates of poverty across the world Relationships between risk factor levels and poverty Potential impact on risk factor levels of shifting poverty distributions Burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors Childhood ...
... rate of development of new cases is highest in Eastern Europe and central Asia . Life expectancy at birth in sub - Saharan Africa is currently estimated at 47 years ; without AIDS it is estimated that it would be around 62 years ...
... rates have risen threefold or even more in some parts of North America , Eastern Europe , the Middle East , the Pacific Islands , Australasia and China since 1980. Changes in food processing and production and in agricultural and trade ...
... rates result in larger improvements in population health . Even greater improvements would arise if higher taxes were combined with comprehensive tobacco advertising bans . Chapter Six : Strengthening risk prevention policies argues ...
... rates , these exposure levels are likely to assume in- creasing importance . Unless prevention begins early , with initiatives such as those envisaged in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , then the low and middle income ...