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Health

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World health

In Which of these health issues are problems in your country? Put a (l).
obesity
heart disease
dementia
access to healthcare injury ___
malnutrition
waterborne disease
depression
influenza
cancer
IME1 Explain the difference between the words in each pair. Use a dictionary to help you.

1 4 transmit / contract
infectious / contagious

starvation / malnutrition
2 5 epidemic / pandemic

treatment / medicine
3 6 acute / preventable
IMEI Complete the sentences using information from the text.
Despite incredible improvements in health since 1950, there are still a number of challenges which
should have been easy to resolve. Consider the following:
One billion people lack access to healthcare systems.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the biggest killer amongst diseases globally. An estimated 17.5
million people died from CVDs in 2005, that is 30% of all global deaths.
In 2002, almost 11 million people died from infectious diseases alone, far more than the number
killed in the natural or man-made catastrophes that make headlines.
HIV has spread rapidly. UNAIDS, the joint United Nations programme on HIV/A1DS, estimates are
roughly: 33.4 million living with HIV 2.7 million new infections of HIV, two million deaths from
AIDS.
There are 8.8 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) and 1.75 million deaths from TB each year.
1.6 million people still die from pneumococcal dienses every year, making it the number one
vaccine-preventable cause of death worldwide. More than half of the victims are children.
Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and at least a million deaths annually.
Around 11 million children under five die from malnutrition and preventable disea Res each year.
More than half a million people, mostly children, died from measles in 2003 even though effective
immunisation costs just 0.30 US dollars per person, and has been available for over 40 years.

Thirty percent of all
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In 2002, more people died of
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Pneumococcal diseases are preventable, yet
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In
2003 over 500,000 people
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It costs only thirty cents to
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