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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... Social and cultural interpretations of risk Perceptions of health risks in developing countries Importance of risk communications 27 2 2 8 7 8 68858 29 30 31 32 34 35 36 36 37 38 Influence of special interest groups on risk perceptions ...
... social norm , thus lowering risk in the entire population . Small shifts in some risks in the population can translate into major public health benefits . Thus , the chapter strongly advocates the assessment of population - wide risks ...
... social norm , thus lowering risk in the entire population . Small shifts in some risks in the population can translate into major public health benefits . Therefore this chapter strongly advocates the assessment of population - wide ...
... social sciences ) for their analysis . The following sections outline some of the different dimensions that should be considered . STANDARDIZED COMPARISONS AND COMMON OUTCOME MEASURES Ideally , the impact of each risk factor should be ...
... social and be- havioural factors are protective of health in adolescence and later life . Such protection facili- tates resistance to disease , minimizes and delays the emergence of disabilities , and promotes more rapid recovery from ...