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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... Regions , estimates for 2001 192 Annex Table 4 Healthy life expectancy ( HALE ) in all Member States , estimates for ... Regions , 2000 226 Annex Table 12 Attributable DALYS by risk factor , sex and mortality stratum in WHO Regions ...
... REGION AND MORTALITY STRATUM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX 233 236 239 TABLES Table 4.1 Population impact fractions by subregion for counterfactual scenario of population moving from living on < US $ 2 per day to > US $ 2 per day Table 4.2 ...
... regions , some of The most enemies of joining forces with poverty impose a double burden of disease , disability and premature death on many millions of people . It is time for us to close ranks against this growing threat . Reducing ...
... regions of high child mortality . A policy shift towards household water management appears to be the most attractive short - term water - related health intervention in developing countries . Preventive interventions to reduce the ...
... regions ( 10-12 ) . In the first round of the global burden of disease study , risk factors were assessed that were either exposures in the environment ( for example , unsafe water ) , human behaviour ( for example , tobacco smoking ) ...