Health Curriculum: Unit 5--Main text: Grades 7-11

Fighting Disease:
Health At The End Of The Millennium
Another Wired Curriculum from The United Nations CyberSchoolBus

	Introduction
	How They Work
	How They Spread
	Poverty and Disease
	Prevention
	Immunization

Unit 5
Treatment and Prevention

The social body

In principle, it sounds easy to protect one's own body. But the body is part of a larger social context. It is part of an environment which provides it with nutritious or deficient food; with clean or dirty water to wash and drink; with access to antibiotics and vaccines or not; with a viable public health system or none at all. What's more, some pathogens may enter your body irrespective of how healthy you are - if, for example, you unknowingly eat contaminated fruit or are exposed to a virus which has not yet been identified.

That is why a systematic local and global approach is necessary - something that UN agencies such as the World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNDP are doing along with thousands of governmental and non-governmental partner organizations.

Immunization	Treatment
Social Improvements	Public Health and Surveillance Systems

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