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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... example , putting on a car seat belt is an individual action to reduce risk of injury ; intro- ducing a law to make wearing seat belts compulsory is a government action on behalf of the population . Many people believe it is their ...
... examples . Governments , particularly in the last 100 years , have played the leading role in protecting and improving the health of their populations . As the 20th century ended , The World Health Report 1999 traced the revolutionary ...
... example , to large reductions in the prevalence of HIV / AIDS and moderate but popu- lation - wide shifts in major cardiovascular risk factors , such as blood pressure and high choles- terol levels . Sharing other countries ' successes ...
... example , chemical X causes liver damage . • Exposure assessment combines data on the distribution and concentrations of pollution in the environment with information on behaviour and physiology to estimate the amount of pollutant to ...
... example , the answer to the question : " What is the risk of getting HIV / AIDS from an infected needle ? " • Risk can mean a factor that raises the probability of an adverse outcome . For example , major risks to child health include ...