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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... children , ado- lescents and young adults . Obesity rates have risen threefold or even more in some parts of North America , Eastern Europe , the Middle East , the Pacific Islands , Australasia and China since 1980. Changes in food ...
... child is cost - effective in all settings . The components include micronutrient supplementation , treatment of diarrhoea and pneumonia , and disinfection of water at the point of use as a way of reducing the incidence of diarrhoea ...
... children learn not to play with fire – and is constantly updated in adulthood . Some risks , such as disease outbreaks , are beyond our individual control ; others , such as smoking or other unhealthy consumptions , are within our power ...
... child health include malnutrition , unsafe water and indoor air pollution . · Relative risk - the likelihood of an adverse health outcome in people exposed to a particular risk , compared with people who are not exposed . For example ...
... child relations and spousal ties ) and the workplace ( employer- employee relations and coworker connections ) are now recognized as key influences on physi- cal and mental health . A growing literature un- derscores the protective ...