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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... sources such as family , society and government . It is a learning process that begins in childhood – when children learn not to play with fire – and is constantly updated in adulthood . Some risks , such as disease outbreaks , are ...
... Sources : ( 1,2 ) . • • • the potential for harm . Population attributable risk - the proportion of disease in a popula- tion that results from a particular risk to health . Attributable burden - the proportion of current disease or ...
... Sources : ( 14-19 ) . health behaviours ( e.g. , proper diet and adequate exercise , and avoiding cigarettes , drugs , excessive alcohol and risky sexual practices ) are also influ- enced by psychosocial factors . The presence of ...
... Sources : ( 22-24 ) . cognitive development , which in turn may affect health and labour - market success later in life . The impact of living and working environments - and lifestyle factors such as smoking - on health in- equalities ...
... sources , methods and assumptions , extensive peer review , explicit assessments of causality , and quantitative estimates of other uncertainty . Box 2.4 Population - wide strategies for prevention " It makes little sense to expect ...