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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... sanitation and hygiene Urban air pollution Indoor smoke from solid fuels Lead exposure Climate change Other environmental risks to health Selected occupational risks Work - related risk factors for injuries Work - related carcinogens ...
... sanitation in subregions AFR - D and EMR - D 128 Table 5.3 Cost - effective interventions 134 FIGURES Figure 2.1 Example of distributional transitions for blood pressure and for tobacco smoking 12 Figure 2.2 Causal chains of exposure ...
... sanitation during the 19th and 20th centuries were directly related to the control of the organisms that cause cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases . Mass immunization programmes eradicated the scourge of small- pox from the planet and ...
... sanitation and hygiene , unsafe sex ( particularly related to HIV / AIDS ) , iron deficiency , and indoor smoke from solid fuels . The list also includes risks that are more commonly associated with wealthy societies , such as high ...
... sanitation and hygiene ; iron deficiency ; indoor smoke from solid fuels ; high cholesterol ; and obesity . Together , these account for more than one - third of all deaths worldwide . The report shows that a relatively small number of ...