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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... strategies Policy implications 130 Unsafe health care injections 130 131 137 CHAPTER 6 STRENGTHENING RISK PREVENTION POLICIES 145 Choosing priority strategies for risk prevention 147 Population - based interventions or high - risk ...
... strategies : key to risk reduction Government responsibility for health Reducing major risks to health will promote sustainable development Reducing major risks to health can reduce inequities in society Governments need to prioritize ...
... strategies for prevention 16 Box 2.5 Multiple causes of disease 18 Box 2.6 Box 3.1 Estimating the combined effects of cardiovascular disease risk factors Perceptions of risk by scientists and the general public 24 31 Box 3.2 Box 3.3 ...
... strategies to use , governments must first be able to assess and compare the magnitude of risks accurately . The subject of risk assess- ment is thus a major component of this report . Risk assessment is defined as " a systematic ...