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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... gains . in life expectancy achieved in the previous few decades . These amounted to 30-40 years more life for people in some countries . Although the devastating impact of some diseases , such as HIV / AIDS , malaria and tuberculosis ...
... gain can be achieved , they supported the development of a scientific framework with consistent definitions and methods on which to build reliable , compa- rable assessments . There was support for an intersectoral approach to ...
... gains are extensive , but the challenges are great as well - a preventive measure that brings large benefits to the community appears to offer little to each participating individual . This may adversely affect motivation of the ...
... gains in knowledge . The management of highly uncertain risks and the use of the precautionary principle are discussed in Chapter 6 . ASSESSING AVOIDABLE AS WELL AS ATTRIBUTABLE BURDEN Risk assessments to date have typically used only ...
... that in many cases considerable gains can be achieved by reducing the risks to health that are already known . Standard WHO age groups were chosen ( 0-4 , 5-14. 18 The World Health Report 2002 Overview of risk assessment methods.