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


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Unit 4
Poverty: Breeding ground for disease

OBJECTIVES

  • Illustrate the link of poverty and infectious diseases
  • Show that health is as much a result of social conditions as physical ones
  • Present the global dimension of poverty and infectious diseases
  • Examine potential solutions to the problem of poverty and infectious diseases


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