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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... subregion for counterfactual scenario of population moving from living on < US $ 2 per day to > US $ 2 per day Table 4.2 ... subregions AFR - D and EMR - D 128 Table 5.3 Cost - effective interventions 134 FIGURES Figure 2.1 Example of ...
... subregions were based on WHO regions , subdivided by mortality patterns ( see the List of Member States by WHO Region and mortality stratum ) . The methodology involved calculating population attributable risk , or where multi - level ...
... subregions ( derived by divid- ing the six WHO regions into mortality strata - see the List of Member States by WHO ... subregions , where the corresponding percentages ranged from 18 % ( 3 % ) for EUR - B to 85 % ( 42 % ) for SEAR - D ...
... subregions , AFR - E ( South Africa data only ) and AMR - B ( Panama data only ) , impoverished people had ... subregions with population impact fraction estimates . See the List of Member States by WHO Region and mortality stratum for ...
... subregions . BURDEN OF DISEASE AND INJURY ATTRIBUTABLE TO SELECTED RISK FACTORS The next sections of the chapter describe selected major health risk factors , grouped as follows : childhood and maternal undernutrition ; other diet ...