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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... Avoidable burden - the proportion of future disease or injury burden that is avoidable if current and future exposure levels are reduced to those specified by some alternative , or counterfactual , distribution . sented in this report ...
... AVOIDABLE AS WELL AS ATTRIBUTABLE BURDEN Risk assessments to date have typically used only attributable risk estimates , basically addressing the question " what proportion of current burden is caused by the accumulated effects of all ...
... avoidable burden ( the proportion of future burden avoidable if current and future exposure levels are reduced to those specified by some alternative , or counterfactual , distribution ) . When the time between exposure and disease or ...
... avoidable burdens Avoidable burden with constant projected burden Avoidable burden with decreasing projected burden Disease burden Disease burden To Time Disease burden Το Time Risk factor reductiona 10 % 25 % C = Avoidable burden 50 % ...
... avoidable burdens Risk factor levels • Current distributions • Counterfactual distributions based on theoretical minimum Risk factor - disease relationships • Risk accumulation • Risk reversal Disease burden in 2000 , 2001 , 2005 , 2010 ...