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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... risk factors , by level of development and type of affected outcome Figure 4.11 Disease and risk factor burden Figure 4.12 Estimated gain in healthy life expectancy with removal of 20 leading risk factors by subregion Figure 4.13 ...
... risk " , it is defined in this report as " a probability of an adverse outcome , or a factor that raises this probability " . The number of such factors is countless and the report does not attempt to be comprehensive . For ex- ample ...
Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life World Health Organization. In other , more developed , countries such as China and most countries in Central and South America , five risk factors cause at least one - sixth of their total disease ...
... risk factors , underweight is closely followed by unsafe sex , the main factor in the spread of HIV / AIDS , with a major impact in the poor countries of Africa and Asia . The report says HIV / AIDS is now the world's fourth biggest ...
... risk factors among poor households and indi- viduals , and the disease burden they cause , enables the design of policies most likely to reduce them . Chapter Five : Some strategies to reduce risk puts forward the best available ...