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UNIT 2
MODULE 3: APPLICATIONS OF BIOLOGY (cont’d)

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES EXPLANATORY NOTES SUGGESTED PRACTICAL
ACTIVITIES

Social and Preventative Medicine (cont’d)

Students should be able to:

3.8. discuss the roles of social, Infections including but
economic and biological not limited to AIDS and
factors in the prevention dengue fever.
and control of viral
infections.

4. Substance Abuse

Students should be able to:

4.1. discuss the meaning of the Emphasise that both legal
term, “drug abuse”; and illegal drugs can be
abused.

4.2. distinguish between
psychological and physical
dependence;

4.3. describe the short-term Short-term – fatty liver,
and long-term hepatitis; long-term –
consequences of alcohol cirrhosis, cancer, impaired
consumption on the nervous transmission,
nervous system and the demyelination,
liver; dehydration of the brain
cells.

4.4. discuss the social Drinking and driving,
consequences of excessive aggressive behaviour,
alcohol use; and, intra-family violence,
family breakdown and
petty crime; Include a
definition of ‘a unit of
alcohol’; Daily Alcohol
Limits (DAL) – safe limits
(that is, blood and breath
limits) for driving.

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