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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... alcohol , blood pressure , cholesterol and obesity . Furthermore , more than three - quarters of cardiovascular disease- the world's leading cause of death - results from tobacco use , high blood pressure or cholesterol , or their ...
... alcohol consumption has increased in recent decades , with most or all of this increase occurring in developing countries , according to the report . Worldwide , alcohol caused 1.8 million deaths , equal to 4 % of the global disease ...
... life - enhancing health decisions for themselves on matters such as tobacco use , excessive alcohol consumption , unhealthy diet and unsafe sex . SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS Chapter One : Protecting the people sets Overview xvii Recommended ...
... alcohol and tobacco , around the world are creating a " risk transition " . Diseases such as cancers , heart disease , stroke and diabetes are increasing in prominence . This trend is particularly serious for many low and middle income ...
... alcohol and tobacco , around the world . These changing patterns are identified in this report as being of crucial importance to global health . They amount to nothing less than a " risk transition " which is causing an alarming ...