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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... settings is an indicator of causality and generalizability . While the representativeness of a study population is an essential component of extrapolating results for risk factor levels , study reliability and comparability will often ...
... setting all individuals ' body mass index to no more than 22 , and a simulated mean cholesterol level of 2.3 mmol / l and corresponding variance was estimated to halve the 12 - year risk of CHD in both women and men . The estimated ...
... setting up independent but sympathetic policy think - tanks and research funding organizations ; • • • encouraging and supporting experts who are sympathetic to their position ; funding and publishing research that supports the interest ...
... settings : The relevance of an anthropological perspective . Geneva : World Health Organization ; 2001. Unpublished background paper for The World Health Report 2002 . 36. Manderson L , Tye LC . Condom use in heterosexual sex : a review ...
... setting for living and hu- man activity . Furthermore , people - especially in temperate and cold climates and in industrial- ized societies - spend most of their time indoors in buildings such as homes , offices , schools and day ...