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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... deaths in developing countries . In other words , the report says , deaths from under- weight every year rob the world's poorest children of an estimated total of 130 million years of healthy life . In terms of global risk factors ...
... deaths in the year 2000 - 4.9 million - is over one million more than it was in 1990 , with the increase being most marked in developing countries . However , most of the smoking - related disease burden is still found in industrialized ...
... deaths from noncommunicable diseases . Every country has major risks to health that are known , definite and increasing , sometimes largely unchecked , for which cost - effective in- terventions are insufficiently applied . Once ma- jor ...
... death or hospitalization , tend to focus on the need for palliative or curative services . In contrast , assessments of burden resulting from risk factors will estimate the potential of prevention . One notable exception concerns ...
... to cause cardiovascular disease such as stroke or coronary heart disease . The sequelae include death and disability , such as angina or hemiplegia . and policy needs . For example , measuring iodine levels 14 The World Health Report 2002.