The world health report 2002 - Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life

The 2002 report describes the amount of disease, disability and death in the world today that can be attributed to a selected number of the most important risks to human health. It also shows how much this burden could lowered in the next 20 years if the same risk factors were reduced.

• World health report 2002 press kit

• Message from the Director-General
• Overview
• Statistical annex

Download the World health report

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FULL REPORT

• Full report
  pdf, 2.14Mb

OVERVIEW

• Overview in Arabic
  pdf, 1.78Mb
• Overview in Russian
  pdf, 1.96Mb
• Overview in Chinese
  pdf, 5.34Mb

REPORT BY CHAPTERS

• Director General's Message & Overview
  pdf, 264kb
• Chapter 1: Protecting the People
  pdf, 198kb
• Chapter 2: Defining and Assessing Risks to Health
  pdf, 354kb
• Chapter 3: Perceiving Risks
  pdf, 277kb
• Chapter 4: Quantifying Selected Major Risks to Health
  pdf, 955kb
• Chapter 5: Some Strategies to Reduce Risk
  pdf, 412kb
• Chapter 6: Strengthening Risk Prevention Policies
  pdf, 260kb
• Chapter 7: Preventing Risks and Taking Action
  pdf, 215kb
• Statistical annex
  pdf, 917kb