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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... evaluate and communicate the information on health risks such as HIV / AIDS or new vaccines , particularly if these are associated with scientific and ethical controversies ? Such situations challenge the media to be responsible when ...
... Evaluating chemical risks : results of a survey of the British Toxicology Society . Human and Experimental Toxicology 1997 ; 16 : 289-304 . 24. Flynn J , Slovic P , Mertz CK . Gender , race and perception of environmental health risks ...
... evaluated in this report ( see Table 4.7 ) . The disease burden from these selected occupational risks amounts to 1.5 % of the global burden in terms of DALYS . Examples of other important work - related risk factors include pesticides ...
... evaluated very often . The evidence on the costs and effectiveness of these interventions is less certain , but it ... evaluate the burden of all the major risks to health and the costs and effectiveness of all major interventions . 2 ...
... evaluating what would be achieved by each intervention alone and in combina- tion with other interventions . TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR COST - EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS The estimates , which provide the basis of the results reported in ...