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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... estimate the potential of prevention . One notable exception concerns communicable diseases , since treating infected ... estimates of how much higher the risk is in individuals who are exposed compared with those who are not . It has ...
... estimated health risks , such as the number of people predicted to experience a particular disease , for a particular population . This typically includes estimation and communication of uncertainties . Environmental risk assessments of ...
... 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 round of the global burden of disease study ( 4 , 5 ) . These ...
... estimates are also less susceptible to the influence of arbitrary choices of theoretical minima , and are likely to be the most reliable , as the dose- response is often least certain at low exposure levels . Figure 2.1 Example of ...
... estimates , as well as facilitating estimation of the effect of simultaneous changes in two or more risk factor distributions . Some examples are shown later in the report . Risk factors can also be separated from outcomes in time ...