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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... female partners . Samples of 750-850 men were selected randomly in each city . The percentages who reported having taken ... females ( 24 ) . To the extent that sociopolitical factors shape public perception of risks , gender differences ...
... females . Since deaths from un- dernutrition almost all occur among young children , the loss of healthy life years ... female deaths . Attributable DALYS are even greater , amounting to the loss of about 35 million healthy life years ...
... females . Attributable DALYS are higher : 1.8 % of global disease burden . Over 4-6 % of all disease burden in Africa was estimated to result from vitamin A deficiency . ZINC DEFICIENCY Zinc deficiency is largely related to inadequate ...
... females . Attributable DALYS were higher , with zinc deficiency accounting for about 2.9 % of worldwide loss of healthy life years . Of this disease burden , amounting to 28 million DALYS worldwide , 34.2 % occurred in SEAR - D , 31.1 ...
... female deaths attributable to cholesterol is slightly higher than that for men . Figure 4.4 Nine examples of continuous associations between risks and disease Ischaemic heart disease1 4.00 4.0 Ischaemic heart disease1 3.0- Ischaemic ...