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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... impact in the poor countries of Africa and Asia . The report says HIV / AIDS is now the world's fourth biggest cause of death . Currently 28 million ( 70 % ) of the 40 million people with HIV infection are concentrated in Africa , but ...
... impact of interventions , are considered . The importance of understanding and managing the risk perceptions of different groups in society , when seeking to reduce risks , is also discussed . The chapter concludes that reduc- ing risk ...
... impact of those strategies on costs and effectiveness . It considers individual be- haviours related to risk , such as food intake , smoking and sexual behaviour . It also dis- cusses individual factors , such as genetics , and ...
... impact on inequities in population health , must also be taken into account . Chapter Seven : Preventing risks and taking action contains the report's conclusions . It says that in order to protect and improve health globally , much ...
... impact on populations , government policies might be driven exclusively by factors such as pressure groups or the emotive weight of individual cases . A key purpose of this report is to provide governments 3 Reducing the risks.