Monday, November 2, 2009

WHO presented report on risk factors for the health

The World Organization of the Health (WHO) presented an interesting so called study “Global Health Risks”, which basically expresses that controlling certain risk factors for the health it might increase the expectation of life of the persons in the whole world. Next, this health blog will allude to this interesting document that was presented some days ago by the international sanitary organism.

Human health

As informed the web site of the WHO, some days ago the World Organization of the Health, recently distinguished with the Award Prince Asturias of International cooperation 2009, a report presented about the most common factors that they affect to the human health.

We are speaking about the titled report “Global Health Risks”, whose translation to Spanish would be “Risk for the World Health”. The same one was realized by the World Organization of the Health like an answer to the need to be provided with information first hand, constantly and comparably on the dangers for the health of the persons, so much on a global scale as regionally, he informed the web of the WHO.

As regards the factors that they put in danger to the health, there is five of them that are causative of about 15 million deaths a year and that controlling them one might go so far as to increase five more years the expectation of life of the human beings, he published the web.

Although the report speaks of up to 24 risks for the human health on a global scale and regionally, like for example the environmental ones and the physiological ones, it is recommended to pay a lot of attention to five of them. The above mentioned factors to be born in mind are: 1) the insufficiency ponderal in the infancy; 2) the sexual risk practices; 3) the alcohol consumption; 4) the absence of healthy water, of sanitation and of hygiene; and 5) the arterial hypertension, it spread the web page of the organism.

To read more on this interesting report, do not hesitate to enter to the official web site of the WHO.

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