The world health report 2002 - reducing risks, promoting healthy life.

Institute of social justice and medicine: developing a think tank to promote policy formation.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a "resource for everyday living, not the objective of living"; however, worldwide, there remains an unmistakable inequity in level of health and access to healthcare. The WHO has published documents on financing health systems towards universal health coverage [1], promoting healthy life [2], improving performance of health systems [3], and ...

Editorial: Health psychology and public health--bridging the gap.

T H E M O S T recently published World Health Report—World Health Report 2002: Reducing risks, promoting healthy life (WHO, 2002)—has again identified the fundamental importance of health behaviours, and risk factors under behavioural control, as causes of much of the world’s burden of disease. Indeed, the report states that the 10 leading preventable risks to global health include unsafe sex, ...

Prevention of chronic diseases: WHO global strategy on diet, physical activity and health.

Noncommunicable conditions, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes, obesity, cancers and respiratory diseases, account for 59% of the 56.5 million deaths annually and 45.9% of the global burden of disease. Half of these (17 million annually) are CVD, the majority heart disease and stroke. Five of the top 10 selected global disease burden risk factors identified by World Health Report...

Isn’t it the Time for Working on Public Health Guidance in Health System of Iran?

Considering epidemiologic and demographic transition, chronic diseases management approach has been important recently. It is estimated that the aging population in the world would be increased over the next 25 years by more than 80% on which major contribution would be in the developing countries and increasing burden of diseases could be resulted. Nowadays, major causes of death in the world ...

Promoting Healthy Lifeii The World Health Report 2002 WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.