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The World Health Report is WHO's leading publication. Each year the report combines an expert assessment of global health, including statistics relating to all countries, with a focus on a specific subject. The main purpose of the report is to provide countries, donor agencies, international organizations and others with the information they need to help them make policy and funding decisions. The report is also offered to a wider audience, from universities, teaching hospitals and schools, to journalists and the public at large - anyone, in fact, with a professional or personal interest in international health issues.
It measures the amount of disease, disability, and death in the world today and how these can be attributed to some of the most urgent risks to human health. Even more importantly, it calculates how much of this present burden could be avoided in the next few decades by concentrating on certain risk factors.
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