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. |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 73
... DALYs as well as attributable fractions are summarized in Annex Tables 6-13 . All these results should be considered in the context of likely uncer- tainty levels , indicated in the Statistical Annex Explanatory Notes . CHILDHOOD AND ...
... DALYS in each subregion ) A. Underweight 0000 B. Iron deficiency 0000 trition , much of the burden of deaths C ... DALYS attributable to selected risk factor < 0.5 % WA 0.5-0.9 % 1-1.9 % A 2-3.9 % 4-7.9 % 8-15.9 % 16 % + Proportion of ...
... DALYS , 9.5 % of the global total , were attributed to underweight . These estimates of burden resulting from underweight , together with those given below for micronutrient deficiences , are consistent with previous estimates of over ...
... DALYs worldwide were attributed to vitamin A deficiency , again with the proportion highest in South - East Asia and Africa . Other outcomes potentially associated with vitamin A deficiency are fetal loss , low birth weight , preterm ...
... 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 % in AFR - E and 18.0 ...