Exercise 7. Answer the questions to the text

1. When was the WHO founded?

2. How many member-states are there in the WHO?

3. What are the most active forms of the WHO activities?

4. How are national health services informed about outbreaks of viral diseases?

5. Where is a headquarters of the WHO stationed.

6. What are the current priorities of the WHO?

7. What is the World Health Assembly?

8. What disease has been completely eradicated from the earth?

Exercise 8. Find English equivalents of the following word combinations in the text

Здорове харчування, медичне дослідження, епідемічне попередження, спалах інфекційних хвороб, умови оточуючого середовища, покращувати стан здоров’я, довготривале завдання, старіння, усувати причини хвороби, законодавчий орган, профілактика, безпека продуктів харчування, ослаблення дії хвороб, вагітність, заразна хвороба

Exercise 9. Match the words with their synonyms in the text

Word	Synonym
Illness
struggle
purpose
virulent
state
collect
death rate

Exercise 10. Find 7 words being the noun and verb at the same time (formed by conversion).

Example: work – to work

Exercise 11. The words in this list are all verbs. Form the corresponding nouns:

prevent 7. develop

eradicate 8. treat

decide 9. improve

establish 10. resist

occupy 11. inform

achieve

Exercise 12. Match the terms with their explanation.

1. nutrition	a. a disorder with a specific cause and recognizable signs and symptoms
2. vaccine	b. the state of being diseased
3. morbidity	c. the incidence of death in the population in a given period
4. poliomyelitis	d. the intake of nutrients and their absorption and assimilation by the tissues
5. disease	e. a special preparation of antigenic material that can be used to stimulate the development of antibodies
6. mortality	f. an infectious virus disease affecting the central nervous system

Exercise 13. Agree or disagree with the statements given below. The following phrases may be helpful.

Indeed, sure, certainly, I can’t agree, nothing of the kind, far from it, that goes without saying

1. The WHO is a specialized agency concerned with international public health.

2. The Supreme body of the WHO is in Paris, France.

3. Malaria is a noncommunicable disease.

4. The WHO is not interested in nutrition, food security and healthy eating.

5. Smallpox is widely spread on the Earth.

6. The priorities of the WHO policy are communicable diseases, in particular, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and others.

7. Besides epidemic information the WHO provides other services, i.e. quarantine measures, standardization of medicines, statistics, etc.

8. The emphasis of the WHO work is more on prevention than on cure.

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