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Learning Materials Science > Study
Guides: Biology
Disease: An Introduction
This Study Guide contains sections on defining disease; internal and external
factors; bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and parasitic worms and how they
cause disease; spreading and controlling disease.
Disease: Human Defenses
This Study Guide includes discussions on nonspecific defense systems: the skin
barriers, chemicals, blood chemicals, inflammation, as well as the specific immune
system and B and T cells and types of immunity.
Disease: Infectious Pathogens
This Study Guide includes sections on microorganisms, bacteria, toxins, viruses,
fungi, protozoa; methods of transmission; and treatment and prevention of disease.
Health
and Preventative Medicine Secondary Multimedia> Health > Video
Management Occupations: Health
Services Managers (2:29)
Health services has
been a rapidly growing industry
Preventative Medicine: Public Health
Awareness (2:12)
As the world gets smaller, public health becomes increasingly important.
Health: How Germs are Spread (1:45)
Follow these animated 'germs' as they spread colds from person to person.
World
Health Organization (W.H.O.) Secondary
Encyclopaedia Article
Read about this specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1948
to further international cooperation for improved health conditions.
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World Health NewsBank Special Report
Learn about health issues around the world. Read about Global
health and the W.H.O. as well as gather statistics and visit
related web sites. You can also get
to this and other NewsBank special reports sign onto NewsBank,
then select any of the featured reports at the top of the
home page.
What
kind of shape are you in? NewsBank
> Kidspage > Projects
In this project your students will think about exercise. How
much do you exercise each day?
How much should you exercise each day?
What are the benefits of exercise?
SICK
CHICKS NewsBank > Kidspage > Current Science
An outbreak of deadly bird flu in Asia has health officials
worried that a human epidemic could be right around the
corner.
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