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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... childhood – when 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 ...
... childhood , more common among children of manual workers , can have long - term consequences both for health and socioeconomic circumstances in later life . Slow growth in childhood ( short stature for age and sex ) is an indicator of ...
... childhood malnutrition ) and others based on models using exposure determinants and their expected trends ( for example , physical inactivity , indoor smoke from solid fuels ) . • Projected risk factor levels under a counterfactual ...
... childhood mortality . An alternative approach is outlined in Box 2.6 . This simulation method based on individual participant data from a single cohort is compatible with the joint effects estimated from aggregate data as described ...
... childhood , that individuals perceive and make sense of their world . In a similar way , perceptions of risks to health are embedded within different economic , social and cultural environments . Much of the original impetus for ...