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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... DALYS in each subregion ) A. Blood pressure 0000 B. Cholesterol 0000 C. Overweight ( high body mass index ) 0000 J. Proportion of DALYS attributable to selected risk factor < 0.5 % 0.5-0.9 % 1-1.9 % A 2-3.9 % 14-7.9 % 8-15.9 % 16 % + ...
... DALYS ( 2.8 % of total ) . Of this total disease burden , 27 % occurred in SEAR - D , 18 % in EUR - C and 11 % in WPR - B . In AMR - A and Europe , 5-12 % of DALYS were attributable to suboptimal cholesterol levels . In most regions ...
... DALYS in Eu- rope and AMR - A , but less than 3 % in Africa , AMR - D , South - East Asia , EMR - D and WPR - A . The proportions of DALYS caused by high BMI are slightly higher for women than for men . LOW FRUIT AND VEGETABLE INTAKE ...
... DALYS are attributable to low fruit and vegetable intake . Of the burden attributable to low fruit and vegetable intake , about 85 % was from cardiovascular diseases and 15 % from cancers . About 43 % of the disease burden occurred in ...
... DALYS in each subregion ) Unsafe sex 9009 0000000 Dor • Proportion of DALYS attributable to selected risk factor < 0.5 % 0.5-0.9 % 1-1.9 % A 2-3.9 % 4-7.9 % 8-15.9 % 16 % + libo 0 000 0 are responsible for the most demo- graphically ...