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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... Table 4.2 . Each of these factors is discussed separately below and some summary results are shown graphically in Figure 4.2 . UNDERWEIGHT Undernutrition , defined in public health by poor anthropometric status , is mainly a con ...
... Table 4.3 ) . Some summary results are shown graphically in Figure 4.3 . HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Blood pressure is a measure of the force that the circulating blood exerts on the walls of the main arteries . The pressure wave transmitted ...
... Table 4.4 ) . The largest risk by far is that posed by unsafe sex leading to infection with HIV / AIDS . Other potentially deleterious outcomes , such as other sexually transmitted infections , unwanted pregnancy or the psychological ...
Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life World Health Organization. Table 4.4 Selected major risks to health : sexual and reproductive health Risk factor Unsafe sex Theoretical minimum exposure No unsafe sex Lack of contraception Use of ...
... Table 4.5 ) . Some summary results are shown in Figure 4.6 . SMOKING AND ORAL TOBACCO USE Tobacco is cultivated in many regions around the world and can be legally purchased in all countries . The dried leaf of the plant nicotiana ...