IMPACT Ch 17-2 p647-649

Dr. Margaret Chan, the former Director-General of the World Health Organization, said

• we need to spend more money on pharmaceutical and biotechnology products, and less on health sytems and delivery

• industrialized countries need more care and attention with health needs

• technology has reached an end point and no further health discoveries will be made

• we spent a lot of money on health research but not enough on health systems and how to deliver health solututions to people in need

Every year, more than 10 million people die of hunger and huger-related diseases. More than ___ million children under age ___ die from poor nutrition annually.

• half a / 18

• 1 / 14

• 2 / 10

• 3 / 5

Pandemics are a(n) _________ experience for us, especially in the last hundred years or so.

• brand new

• continuingly regular

• easy