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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:
1. prevent 7. develop
2. eradicate 8. treat
3. decide 9. improve
4. establish 10. resist
5. occupy 11. inform
6. 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 | ||||
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