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World Health Report archives from January 1 2003
Message from the Director-General
January 1, 2003... Today's global health situation raises urgent questions about justice. In some parts of the world there is a continued expectation of longer and more comfortable life, while in many others there is despair over the failure to control disease...
Overview
January 1, 2003... Global health is a study in contrasts. While a baby girl born in Japan today can expect to live for about 85 years, a girl born at the same moment in Sierra Leone has a life expectancy of 36 years. The Japanese child will receive vaccinations,...
Chapter One: Global Health: Today's Challenges
January 1, 2003... Reviewing the latest global health trends, this chapter finds disturbing evidence of widening gaps in health worldwide. In 2002, while life expectancy at birth reached 78 years for women in developed countries, it fell back to less than 46 years...
Chapter Two: Millennium Health Goals: Paths to the Future
January 1, 2003... The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) place health at the heart of development and represent commitments by governments throughout the world to do more to reduce poverty and hunger and to tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of...
Chapter Three: HIV/AIDS: Confronting a Killer
January 1, 2003... Today HIV/AIDS is a major global health emergency, affecting all regions of the world, causing millions of deaths and suffering to millions more. But access to effective prevention and treatment varies widely. This chapter examines what can and...
Chapter Four: Polio Eradication: The Final Challenge
January 1, 2003... As a result of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, one of the largest public health efforts in history, the number of children paralysed by this devastating disease every year has fallen from over 350 000 in 1988 to as few as 1900 in 2003;...
Chapter Five: SARS: Lessons from a New Disease
January 1, 2003... New diseases have been emerging at the unprecedented rate of one a year for the last two decades, and this trend is certain to continue. The sudden and deadly arrival of SARS on the global health stage early in 2003 was in some ways perhaps the...
Chapter Six: Neglected Global Epidemics: Three Growing Threats
January 1, 2003... Today, the burden of deaths and disability in developing countries caused by noncommunicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular conditions, outweighs that imposed by longstanding communicable diseases. To tackle this well-recognized "double...
Chapter Seven: Health Systems: Principled Integrated Care
January 1, 2003... To meet the formidable challenges described earlier, this chapter calls for the reinforcement of health systems to be based on the core principles of primary health care as outlined at Alma-Ata in 1978: universal access and coverage on the basis...
Statistical Annex
January 1, 2003... The six tables in this technical annex present updated information on summary measures of population health, mortality and the burden of disease in WHO Member States and regions, and selected national health accounts aggregates for 1997-2001....
List of Member States by WHO Region and Mortality Stratum
January 1, 2003... To aid in cause-of-death and burden-of-disease analyses, the 192 Member States of the World Health Organization have been divided into five mortality strata on the basis of their levels of mortality in children under five years of age (5q0) and...
