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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 5
Treatment and Prevention

OBJECTIVES

  • Demonstrate the overall impact of disease control on society
  • Explain ways in which the spread of infectious diseases can be contained and controlled
  • Illustrate the link between increasing life expectancy and prevention of infectious diseases
  • Outline the importance of treatment as a part of prevention
  • Present the problems posed by the misuse of antibiotics and the development of drug-resistant strains




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