Fighting Disease: Health At The End Of The Millennium Another Wired Curriculum from The United Nations CyberSchoolBus
		Objectives While each unit comes with its own specific set of objectives, the overall objectives of the curriculum are set out below. "Fighting Disease: Health At The End Of The Millennium" will help students: View health in general and the new challenges of infectious diseases in particular from a global perspective Gain a basic understanding of how diseases work and how humans fight against them Become aware of the social dimensions of health, namely the problems arising from such things as poverty, war and urbanization Gain an understanding of how the United Nations system, and in particular the World Health Organization (WHO), combats the spread of disease at a global level < Back -- Main -- Next >
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