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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... distributed risks to health - high blood pressure , tobacco , alcohol , inactivity , obesity and cholesterol - that are now major threats throughout the world , and cause a large proportion of disease burden in industrial- REFERENCES ...
... distribution and concentrations of pollution in the environment with information on behaviour and physiology to estimate the amount of pollutant to which humans are exposed . Biomarkers have been used to gauge levels of some exposures ...
... distribution . sented in this report builds on several similar estimates conducted in recent years . The first global estimates of disease and injury burden attributable to a set of different risk factors were reported in the initial ...
... distributions of risk factors are compared with some alternative , or counterfactual , distribu- tion of exposure ... distribution , that is exposure levels that would yield the lowest population risk ( for example , no tobacco use by ...
... distributions of exposures by applying a counterfactual approach , that is , by comparing the burden caused by the observed risk factor distribution with that expected from some alternative , or counterfactual , distribution . This ...