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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... strategies aim to make healthy behaviour a social norm , thus lowering risk in the entire population . Small shifts in some risks in the population can translate into major public health benefits . Therefore this chapter strongly ...
... strategies to reduce risks to health : the extent of the threat posed by different risk factors , the availability of cost - effective interventions , and societal values and preferences are particularly important . These factors are ...
... strategies developed in epidemiology for assessing population attributable risks , that is , the proportion of disease in a population that results from a particular hazard . A more general approach based on these frameworks can be ...
... strategies ; it can provide an overall picture of the relative roles of different risks to human health . Specific strategies for identifying the appropriate sets of interventions , and the crucial roles of cost - effectiveness analyses ...
... strategies for coping with challenge , perceived control over life outcomes , and expressions of positive emotion . Epidemio- logical studies have shown reduced morbidity and delayed mortality among people who are so- cially integrated ...