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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... tion or the elimination of risk . Improvements in drinking - water sup- plies and sanitation during the 19th and 20th centuries were directly related to the control of the organisms that cause cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases ...
... tion exposures . The chapter also highlights important considerations to be kept in mind when deciding on risk reduction measures . These include the criteria for choosing which key risks to tackle ; the right balance between efforts ...
... tion , particularly of food , alcohol and tobacco , around the world . These changing patterns are identified in this report as being of crucial importance to global health . They amount to nothing less than a " risk transition " which ...
... tion seems to be gaining speed . Today , more people than ever before are exposed to prod- ucts and patterns of living imported or adopted from other countries that pose serious long - term risks to their health . The fact is that so ...
... tion of trade can lead to both benefits and harms for health . Tobacco is either an established or a rapidly emerging risk to health in all developing countries : the need for more stringent tobacco control is uniformly recognized ...