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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... prevalence and / or large increases in risk for major types of death and disability . • High likelihood of causality . • Potential modifiability . • Neither too specific nor too broad ( for example , environmental hazards as a whole ) ...
... Prevalence ( % of population with a risk factor ) INPUT 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 Disease burden attributable to risk factor ( DALYs in millions ) OUTPUT 2.5 Prevalence Relative risk Disease burden Attributable burden , to be combined with ...
... prevalence overlap ( for example , how much more likely people who smoke are to drink alcohol ) and the biological effects of joint exposures ( for example , whether the risks of alcohol are greater among those who smoke ) ( 27 ) ...
... prevalence among those with disease , such data ideally being Box 2.6 Estimating the combined effects of cardiovascular disease risk factors There are several major risk factors for car- diovascular disease , and the actions of some are ...
... prevalence of exposure to indoor air pollution and little relative difference between the impoverished and non - impoverished . The associations of poverty with tobacco and alcohol consumption , lack of breastfeeding , and unsafe sex ...