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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... approach to gauging the importance of specific risks , in terms of the likely size of their impact on populations , government policies might be driven exclusively by factors such as pressure groups or the emotive weight of individual ...
... approach to the definition and study of risks . In this report , risk assessment is defined as " a systematic approach to estimating the burden of disease and injury due to different risks ” . It involves the identification ...
... approach to prevention strategies involving partnerships with communities , nongovernmental organizations , local govern- ment , and private sector organizations . The number of potential risks to health is al- most infinite , and the ...
... approach to health risks . It argues that while much scientific effort and most health resources today are directed ... approaches . Risk assessment has emerged in recent years from its roots in the study of environmental problems , and ...
... approach , and requiring information from reliable , comparable assessments of the magnitude of different major risks to health . This report helps to redress the dearth of such information . The report recognizes that risk analysis is ...