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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... cost and effectiveness of selected interventions to reduce some of the major risk factors discussed in Chapter 4. It ... effective and those that do not seem to be cost - effective in different settings . It illustrates how decision ...
... cost - effective globally , and higher tax rates result in larger improvements in population health . Even greater improvements would arise if higher taxes were combined with comprehensive tobacco advertising bans . Chapter Six ...
... cost - effective and affordable interventions to prevent risks from occurring . Some risks have already been reduced , but changes in patterns of consumption , particularly of food , alcohol and tobacco , around the world are creating a ...
... cost - effective in- terventions are insufficiently applied . Once ma- jor risks to health have been identified , the key challenge is to increase the uptake of known cost - effective interventions . Where cost - effec- tive options to ...
... cost - effective interventions , and societal values and preferences are particularly important . These factors are also key for research priorities - if major threats exist without cost - effective solutions , then these must be placed ...