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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... environmental factors including water and sanitation . The chapter says that many risk reduction strategies involve a component of behaviour change . However , some types of behaviour change might require active govern- ment ...
... environmental controls and ambitious energy policies ; and stronger health promotion and health safety campaigns . This is undoubtedly a radical approach . It requires governments to see the value of shifting the main focus from the ...
... environmental and community con- ditions to individual behaviour - offers many different entry points for prevention . Approaches can be combined so that interventions focus on background environmental ( e.g. indoor air pollu- tion ) ...
... environmental problems , and the steps generally involved in environmental risk assessment can be adapted to apply more specifically to the analysis of health risks . This chapter explains the benefits of comparing different risks to ...
... environmental sector , where it was developed as a systematic way of comparing environmental problems that pose different types and degrees of health risk . Such environmental risk assessment exercises generally comprise four elements ...