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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... individuals in strategies for risk reduction . The key challenge , it says , is to find the right balance between ... individual circumstances and education . It suggests a need for a concerted international research agenda to raise ...
... individual be- haviours related to risk , such as food intake , smoking and sexual behaviour . It also dis- cusses individual factors , such as genetics , and environmental factors including water and sanitation . The chapter says that ...
... individuals to include preventive measures that can be applied to the whole population . There are compelling reasons for governments to play a greater role in tackling these major risks . Governments are the stewards of health ...
... individuals , whole populations and their governments . For 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 ...
... individual travellers or in the cargo holds of aircraft or ships . However , the transition in which other forms of health ... individuals , although not poor , fail to realize their full potential for better health because of a lack of ...