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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... analyses reported in this chapter has been to obtain reliable and comparable estimates of attributable burden of ... analysis in this chapter is used to identify both actions that are very cost - effective and those that do not seem ...
... analysis is a political activity as well as a scientific one and embraces public perception of risk , bringing in issues of values , process , power and trust . THE RISK TRANSITION In the general sense , many risks to health have , of ...
... analysis of health risks . This chapter explains the benefits of comparing different risks to health and defines and explains risk assessment . 2 DEFINING AND ASSESSING RISKS TO HEALTH WHAT ARE RISKS 7 CHAPTER DEFINING AND ASSESSING ...
... analysis is a political enterprise as well as a scientific one , and that public perception of risk also plays a role in risk analysis , bringing issues of values , process , power and trust into the picture . The roles and ...
... analyses in choosing from among them , are outlined in Chapter 5 . KEY GOALS OF GLOBAL RISK ASSESSMENT An effective risk assessment must have a well - defined scope , which in turn depends on the purpose of the analysis . For example ...