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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... lower prevalence of risky behav- iours . This is in addition to being more socially competent and showing higher self - esteem than adolescents without such a connection . Studies in the US have shown that these pro- tective factors ...
... lower birth weights in re- lation to the duration of gestation rather than the effects of premature birth . The associations may be a consequence of " programming " , whereby a stimulus or insult at a critical , sensitive period of ...
... lower ranges can be estimated from surveys undertaken elsewhere , and food sales and agricultural data can be used to produce indirect estimates that occupy a narrower range . Internal consistency can help put ranges on uncertainty ...
... lower mean population levels are associated with dramatically reduced proportions of the population that are hypertensive , hypercholesterolaemic or obese . Rose G. The strategy of preventive medicine . Oxford : Oxford University Press ...
... lower risks of adult mental health problems . ESTIMATING THE JOINT EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE RISKS The main estimates presented in this report are for burden resulting from single risk factors , with the assumption that all others are held ...