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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... females ( 3.8 % ) . World- wide , the attributable fractions for to- bacco were about 12 % for vascular B. Alcohol disease , 66 % for trachea bronchus and lung cancers and 38 % for chronic res- piratory disease , although the pattern ...
... females ( 0.6 % of deaths , 1.3 % of DALYs ) . Within subregions , the proportion of disease burden attributable to alcohol is greatest in the Americas and Europe , where it ranges from 8 % to 18 % of total burden for males and 2 % to 4 ...
... females . Of this total attributable burden , about 32 % occurs in Africa ( AFR - D and AFR - E ) , 37 % in SEAR - D and 16 % in WPR - B . Among women , indoor air smoke causes approximately 3-4 % of DALYS in AFR - D , AFR - E , EMR - D ...
... female working - age population ( people aged 15-64 years ) may have been exposed during their working lives to lung car- cinogens , including asbestos , arsenic , beryllium , cadmium , chromium , diesel exhaust , nickel and silica ...
... females was about 6 % , 11 % and 4 % , respectively . In males it was about 2 % for all catego- ries . Thus over 800 million people worldwide may have experienced CSA , with over 500 million having experienced contact or intercourse ...