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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... mortality rates . Chronic illness in childhood , more common among children of manual workers , can have long - term consequences both for health and socioeconomic circumstances in later life . Slow growth in childhood ( short stature ...
... mortality rates , population numbers and birth rates should be internally consist- ent , and reliable estimates for some of these components will put bounds on the uncer- tainty of the others . However , as outlined earlier , the sum of ...
... mortality patterns ( see the List of Member States by WHO Region and mortality stratum ) . The methodology involved calculating population attributable risk , or where multi - level data were available , potential impact fractions ...
... mortality risk factors , immediate reversibility was assumed . The impact of cessation of the use of alcohol and illicit drugs on neuropsychological diseases , while known to be delayed , was assumed to be fully reversed by 2010 , the ...
... mortality and disability from diseases , injuries , and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020. Cambridge ( MA ) : Harvard University Press ; 1996. p . 295-324 . 5. Murray CJL , Lopez AD . Global patterns of cause of death and ...