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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... levels and increased resistance to insulin . They raise the risks of coronary heart disease , stroke , diabe- tes mellitus , and many forms of cancer . The report shows that obesity is killing about 220 000 men and women a year in the ...
... level , and explain , through open communication with the pub- lic , why and how they are doing so . Governments must also develop high levels of public trust , because the public is quick to judge how well risks are being managed on ...
... levels are likely to assume in- creasing importance . Unless prevention begins early , with initiatives such as those envisaged in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , then the low and middle income countries will suffer a vast ...
... levels of some exposures , such as lead and dioxin . • Dose - response assessment relates the probability of a health effect to the dose of pol- lutant or amount of exposure . • Risk characterization combines the exposure and dose ...
... levels are reduced to those specified by some alternative , or counterfactual , distribution . sented in this report ... level. Defining and Assessing Risks to Health 11 Key goals of global risk assessment CHAPTER.