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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... occupational exposures , a long time lag between exposure and health outcome may result in a major difference between attributable and avoidable burden . The distinction between attributable and avoidable burden is shown graphically in ...
... occupational health , which shows how the choice of risk measure can make a technology appear less or more risky to health ( 21 ) . Between 1950 and 1970 , coal mining in the USA became much less risky if the measure of risk was taken ...
... occupational risks ; and other risks to health ( including unsafe health care practices , and abuse and violence ) . These risk factors are responsible for a substantial proportion of the leading causes of death and disability . This ...
... occupations . These risks cluster and they accumulate over time . In attempting to reduce risks to health , the focus of WHO and many other international organizations and governments is on trying to redress this imbalance - by directly ...
... occupational risks ; and other risks to health ( including unsafe health care practices , and abuse and violence ) . Each risk is briefly described , along with its main causes , its extent in the world and what health problems it ...