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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... important risks to health and to assess the cost - effectiveness of some of the measures to reduce them . The ultimate goal is to help governments of all countries lower these risks and raise the healthy life expectancy of their ...
... important . These risks , and some additional ones , are systematically investigated in this report . They include some familiar enemies of health and allies of poverty , such as underweight , unsafe water , poor sanitation and hygiene ...
... importance of communicating risks clearly and openly to the public , and of creating an atmosphere of trust and shared responsibility between the government , the public at large and the media . This is essential . We know that most ...
... important risks to human health . This is of great interest in itself but , more importantly , the report also calculates how much of this present burden could be avoided in the next couple of decades if the same risk factors were ...
... important determinants of health and lead to adverse meta- bolic changes , including increases in blood pressure , unfavourable cholesterol levels and increased resistance to insulin . They raise the risks of coronary heart disease ...