MIDTEST FOR FKM CLASS A

Read the text well

The United Nations, since its inception, has been actively involved in promoting and protecting good
health worldwide. Leading that effort within the UN system is the World Health Organization (WHO),
whose constitution came into force on 7 April 1948. At the outset, it was decided that WHOs top
priorities would be malaria, womens and childrens health, tuberculosis, venereal disease, nutrition and
environmental sanitation. Many of those remain on WHOs agenda today, in addition to such relatively
new diseases as HIV/AIDS.
In 1948, WHO took over the responsibility for the International Classification of Diseases, which has
become the international standard for clinical and epidemiological purposes. Between 1952 and 1964,
WHOs efforts had reduced the global prevalence of yaws a crippling and disfiguring disease that
afflicted some 50 million people in 1950 by more than 95 per cent. Between 1967 and 1979, WHOs
efforts led to the eradication of smallpox the only time a major infectious disease has been completely
eradicated. Since its Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988, through 2006, the number
of cases was reduced by more than 99 per cent from 350,000 per year to less than 2,000.
WHO staff are at work on the ground in 147 countries worldwide. They advise ministries of health on
technical issues and provide assistance on prevention, treatment and care services throughout the health
sector. Six regional WHO offices coordinate and support these efforts, while giving special attention to
adapting global HIV/AIDS policies to fit the specific needs of their region for example in sub-Saharan
Africa, where the epidemic is largely spread by heterosexual sex, as compared with Eastern Europe,
where injecting drug use is the primary mode of transmission.
In short, WHO interventions cover all areas of the global health-care spectrum, including crisis
intervention and the response to humanitarian emergencies; establishing International Health Regulations,
which countries must follow to identify disease outbreaks and stop them from spreading; preventing
chronic diseases; and working to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Global Strategy for Womens and Childrens Health mobilizes resources to save the lives of more
than 16 million women and children
In the lead-up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit in September 2010, the SecretaryGeneral launched a global effort convening 40 key leaders to define a collective strategy for accelerating
progress on women's and children's health .
But it would be misleading to suggest that the entire work of the UN system in support of global health
rests with the WHO. On the contrary, many members of the UN family are engaged in this critical task.
Many health-related matters addressed directly by the General Assembly and the Economic and Social
Council, as well as through the efforts of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS);
the work of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in support of reproductive, adolescent and
maternal health; and the health-related activities of the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF).
In addition, such members of the UN system as the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),

the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC), and the World Bank, among others, all play a key role in promoting global health.
Health-related decades now being observed internationally, as declared by the General Assembly, include
the Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2001-2010) and the
International Decade for Action, Water for Life (from 22 March 2005).
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Answer the questions well

1. What is actually the role of WHO? Promoting and protecting good health worldwide.
2. What infectious diseases have been eradicated completely by WHO? Smallpox
3. How do you understand the functions of
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Please formulate your answer using your own words.
4. Why would it be misleading to think that only WHO who concerns with the health of the world?
5. What has WHO been doing in in sub-Saharan Africa?
II. Read the statements and decide whether they are True or False, and when they are false,
please make them correct
1. All the priority diseases set by WHO have all been eradicated.
2. HIV/AIDS is a disease newly added into todays agenda of WHO
3. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit has programmed some steps to increase the
health of especially woman and children
4. WHO has become an institution that has the authority to standardize the classification of diseases
internationally.
5. WHO is the only institution in UN which deals with the health of the world.
6. WHO has no authority to interfere the ministry of health in any countries.
III. Put the right form of the words according to the kinds of the words
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NOUN

VERB
include

ADJECTIVE

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maternal
globally
response
collection
add
directly
general

IV. Fill in the blank using the following words: actively, global, accelerate, assistance, particularly
1. The students ______ involve in fund collecting for helping the victims of the earthquake.
2. The groups, _______ those who have been passes the exams, are invited to join this activity.
3. We admit that the work is too complicated, therefore we need to get the ______ from our friend.
4. To ________ the advance of the program, we need to analyze every aspect.
5. The ________ health should be maintained properly, so that every nation will be stable and
strong.
V. Make your own sentences using words or phrases of: in addition, internationally, fund, suggest,
entire.