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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... workers 74 Box 4.5 Coronary heart disease and work - related stress 75 Box 4.6 Risk factors for tuberculosis 77 Box 4.7 Genetics and attributable and avoidable burden 78 Box 4.8 Risks in the health care system 79 Box 4.9 Violence 80 Box ...
... workers , can have long - term consequences both for health and socioeconomic circumstances in later life . Slow growth in childhood ( short stature for age and sex ) is an indicator of early disadvantage . Early material and ...
... workers survivor effect . Mathematical Modeling 1986 ; 7 : 1393-512 . 36. Wilson PWF , D'Agostino RB , Levy D , Belanger AM , Silbershatz H , Kannel WB . Prediction of coronary heart disease using risk factor categories . Circulation ...
... workers employed in the jobs with those risks are affected . It is important to note that not only are the affected workers at high risk , but also that workplace risks are almost entirely preventable . For example , because health care ...
... workers in offices , retail stores and schools are at risk ( 73-75 ) . Work - related falls , motor vehicle injuries ... workers at risk of injury were estimated by employment in broad occupational categories for each region , sex , and ...