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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... avoidable as well as attributable burden 17 Overview of risk assessment methods 18 Choosing and defining risks to health 20 Estimating current risk factor levels and choosing counterfactuals 22 Estimating current and future disease and ...
... avoidable burden The need for cost - effectiveness analyses 39 42 43 235 ! 47 49 50 50 51 52 52 52 54 54 55 55 56 57 57 58 60 60 61 61 62 63 64 64 65 66 67 68 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 75 76 76 77 78 79 81 I 85 85 88 92 CHAPTER 5 SOME ...
... avoidable burdens 19 Figure 2.5 Figure 2.6 Key inputs for assessment of attributable and avoidable burdens Determination of attributable burden , taking account of prevalence and relative risk 20 Figure 3.1 Hazards for dread and risk ...
... avoidable DALYS in 2010 and 2020 following a 25 % risk factor reduction from 2000 , for 10 leading selected risk factors Figure 5.1 Distributions of systolic blood pressure in middle - aged men in two populations 69 81 82 88 83 89 90 90 ...
... avoidable mortality . Substantial agreement on what needs to be done exists between the international sci- entific community and those charged with improving public health . Strategies to achieve these potential gains , particularly in ...