World Health Organization
Exercise 1. Active vocabulary:
Member-state
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країна-учасниця;
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eradicate
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викорінювати;
warning
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попередження;
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strengthen
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– підсилити;
to
raise
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– піднімати;
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broadcast
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– транслювати;
outbreak
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– спалах;
headquarter
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– штаб-квартира;
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sign
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– підписати;
Health
authorities
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керівники медичних установ.
Exercise 2. Translate the following word combinations:
Epidemic diseases, international standardization, health protection, health service, outbreak of the disease, infectious diseases, epidemic warning, medical and administrative staff, international quarantine measures, health workers, water supply.
Past Simple Tense
Exercise 3. Make the past simple, positive, negative or question:
1. I _________________ (work) in a bank for ten years.
2. Where _________________ (you / live) when you were young?
3. She _________________ (not / study) French at university.
4. He _________________ (travel) through the Middle East last year.
5. _________________ (they / visit) the Louvre in Paris?
6. She _________________ (not / watch) TV yesterday.
7. We _________________ (buy) a new car last weekend.
8. Where _________________ (you / teach) before you came here?
9. He _________________ (not / think) that he was right.
10. I _________________ (cook) steak last night.
World Health Organization
WHO was founded in 1948. In 1946 the United Nations held an International Health Conference in New York. There the Constitution of WHO was signed by 61 countries. Now there are 150 member-states. Membership is open to all countries.
WHO activities take many forms:
— strengthening national health services,
— preparing more and better health workers,
— controlling or eradicating epidemic diseases,
— protecting mother's and child health,
— improving sanitation and water supply,
— and making all other efforts to raise health levels.
One of the main services carried out by WHO is the service of epidemic warnings. The five main world epidemics of history — plague, cholera, smallpox, typhus and yellow fever—are still a great danger in our time of fast sea and air travel.
WHO gathers information and broadcasts it daily by radio to health authorities, ports, airports and ships at sea. WHO also informs national health services about outbreaks of viral diseases such as influenza and poliomyelitis.
Besides an epidemic information WHO also provides services which are needed by all the countries, such as an international quarantine measures, world health statistics, international standardization of medicines and vaccines, development of medical research and technical publication programme.
The daily work of the World Health Organization is carried out by a medical and administrative staff of about 2,400 international officers from 70 different countries. These officers are stationed at headquarters in Geneva, in Regional Offices, or with special centers working on every continent.