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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... expenditure . 13 Iron supplementation at 50 % coverage costs I $ 38.2 million , while the combination of interventions would cost I $ 1 billion at the regional level . | activities would cost more than I $ 10 000 136 The World Health ...
... expenditure of approximately I $ 6.8 billion would gain over 140 million DALYS in that region alone . POLICY IMPLICATIONS Very substantial health gains can be made for relatively modest expenditures on inter- ventions to reduce risks ...
... Costs and Impact Study 1993-94 . Canberra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare ; 1998. Health Expenditure Series No. 3 , AIHW Cat . No. HWE 7 . 54. Mathers C , Penm R , Sanson - Fisher 142 The World Health Report 2002.
... Expenditure Series No. 4 , AIHW Cat . No. HWE 4 . 55. Mathers C , Penm R. Health system costs of cardiovascular costs and diabetes in Australia 1993-94 . Can- berra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare ; 1999. Health Expenditure ...
... expenditures , but bold government policies will be required . They should prioritize the most important risks and shift the main focus to include preventive measures that can be applied to the whole population . For example ...