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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... factors xiii xiii xiv xvii xviii 134 7 9 9 10 11 12 13 Including proximal and distal causes 13 Assessing population - wide risks as well as high - risk individuals 15 Including risks that act together to cause disease 15 Using best ...
... factors Childhood and maternal undernutrition Underweight Iron deficiency Iodine deficiency Vitamin A deficiency Zinc deficiency Lack of breastfeeding Other diet - related risk ... RISK From health risks iv The World Health Report 2002.
... RISK From health risks to policy 99 101 What strategies can reduce risks to health ? 103 Risk reduction and ... factors 129 Health practices Combining risk reduction strategies Policy implications 130 Unsafe health care injections 130 ...
Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life World Health Organization. CHAPTER 7 PREVENTING RISKS ... risk reduction Government responsibility for health Reducing major risks to ... factors by subregion , 2000 Selected population attributable ...
... risks to health : environmental factors 67 Table 4.7 Table 4.8 Selected major risks to health : occupational hazards Selected other risks to health 73 79 Table 4.9 Attributable mortality by risk factor , level of development and sex ...