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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... considered to be at high risk are only part of a risk continuum , rather than a distinct group . This leads to one of the most fundamental axioms in preventive medicine : " a large number of people exposed to a small risk may generate ...
... considered a cause . Prevention need not wait until further causes are elucidated . In the foreseeable future we will not know all the causes of disease , or how to avoid all the disease burden attributable to genetic causes ...
... considered in Chapter 5 . REFERENCES 1. Last JM , editor . A dictionary of epidemiology . New York : Oxford University Press ; 2001 . 2. Slovic P. Informing and educating the public about risk . Risk Analysis 1986 ; 6 : 403-15 . 3. Hope ...
... considered when seeking to understand what drives some behaviours and why some interventions are more acceptable and successful than others . Social , cultural and economic factors are central to how individuals perceive health risks ...
... considered in any risk management decision - making process . Each way of summarizing deaths embodies its own set of inherent and subjective values ( 7 ) . For example , an estimate based on reduction in life expectancy treats deaths of ...