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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... scientific effort and most health resources today are directed towards treating disease , rather than preventing it . It argues that focusing on risks to health is the key to prevention . Population - based strategies aim to make ...
... scientific one and embraces public perception of risk , bringing in issues of values , process , power and trust . THE RISK TRANSITION In the general sense , many risks to health have , of course , already been reduced – and a few ...
... scientific advisers and the public is recommended , even when there may be unpalatable messages or scientific uncer- tainty . How risks are described , who are the scien- tific spokespersons , how dialogue and negotiations take place ...
... scientific effort and most health resources today are directed towards treating disease , rather than preventing it , focusing on risks to health is the key to prevention . Such risks do not occur in isolation , so both proximal and ...
... scientific effort and most health resources are directed towards treating disease - the " rule of rescue " still dominates ( 3 ) . Data on disease or injury outcomes , such as death or hospitalization , tend to focus on the need for ...