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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... uncertainty CHAPTER 3 PERCEIVING RISKS Changing perceptions of risk Questioning the science in risk assessment Emerging importance of risk perceptions Risk perceptions Defining and describing risks to health Influences on risk ...
... uncertainties , and consider carefully a range of ethical and other issues . Apart from the obvious health benefits , the report says that , overall , reducing major risks to health will promote sustainable development and reduce ...
... uncertainties . Environmental risk assessments of likely health effects , together with consideration of costs , technical feasibility and other factors , can be used to set priorities for environmental management . Environmental risk ...
... uncertainty and disagree- ment about tolerable thresholds . Similarly , it may be asserted that there are no data when some indirect data are available , or at least the range of levels in other parts of the world is known . For example ...
... uncertainty ) may mean inappropriate inaction . Alternatively , decisions may be made with other even more uncertain information , where the uncertainty will often be implicit . Nonetheless , there can be costs in making incorrect ...