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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... members of a population ) . For the analysis of the costs and effects of interventions to reduce risk in Chapter 5 , a related counterfactual is used - based on the burden that would exist in the absence of relevant interventions . Risk ...
... members , being a collective characteristic and a public good that in turn affects the health status of its members ( 21 ) . Research into the different levels of risks should be seen as complementary . There is considerable importance ...
... Member States by WHO Region and mortality stratum ) . The methodology involved calculating population attributable risk , or where multi - level data were available , potential impact fractions . These measures estimate the proportional ...
... members of future generations . The advent of global terrorism and the development of genetically modified foods are two recent examples . Less dreaded risks tend to be those that are individual , controllable and easily reduced . The ...
... members of the public have yet other notions of risk . How do people define and describe risk factors ? How do they estimate risks ? Answers to such questions obviously alter people's perceptions . Such information is needed , therefore ...