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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... disease burden . At the same time in the most industrialized countries of North America , Europe and the Asian Pacific , at least one - third of all disease burden is caused by tobacco , alcohol , blood pressure , cholesterol and ...
... disease . All are much more common in poor countries and communities than elsewhere . As with underweight , these risks continue to be some of the most formidable enemies of health and allies of poverty . About 1.7 million deaths a year ...
... disease , stroke and other serious illnesses . The report traces the rapid evolution of the tobacco epidemic by showing that the esti- mated number of attributable deaths in the year 2000 - 4.9 million - is over one million more than it ...
... disease on developing countries - the combination of long - established infectious diseases and the greater relative importance of chronic , noncommunicable diseases . Chapter Two : Defining and assessing risks to health offers a ...
... disease and injury . The overall aim of the analyses reported in this chapter has been to obtain reliable and comparable estimates of attributable burden of disease and injury on which to build the basis of a variety of policy ...