World Health Organization (WHO)

The World Health Organization was established sixty years ago on April 7, 1948. The WHO, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. The agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations.

The WHO is responsible for coordinating international efforts to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as SARS, malaria, and AIDS. The WHO also sponsors programs to prevent and treat such diseases. The organization also supports the development and distribution of safe and effective vaccines, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and drugs. After over 2 decades of fighting smallpox, the WHO declared in 1980 that the disease had been eradicated - the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort.

Health topics are always relevant and interesting to students. BookCart lesson plans are an excellent way to create student assignments that focus on research into disease prevention topics, such as the development of vaccines and antibiotics.

eLibrary Science provides a variety of BookCart lesson plans that address these topics. Each model BookCart provide the relevant articles and websites, student directions, and essential questions that encourage critical thinking.

Here are some of the BookCart titles that teachers and librarians can copy and adapt for the study of disease prevention and control:

• Antibiotic Drug Resistance
  
  
• Vaccines to Prevent Diseases
  
  
• Stem Cell Research and Bioethics

To copy any of these BookCarts to your Local Carts collection:

1. Log on to your eLibrary Science Teacher Edition
   
   
2. Click BookCart Admin
   
   
3. Select the ProQuest Carts tab
   
   
4. Click eLibrary Science--BookCarts folder
   
   
5. Scroll through and click the Copy icon (eye) in the Actions column for these BookCarts
   
   
6. Return to My Local Carts
   
   
7. Look for "Copy of" as the prefix of your copied BookCart
   
   
8. Repeat sequence for any other BookCarts that you copy

You will want to edit your new BookCarts in BookCart Editor using this procedure:

1. Click the title to open the BookCart
   
   
2. Type your name in the Author boxes
   
   
3. Delete "Copy of" from the title
   
   
4. Scroll and click the Save button

Students should cite at least two articles and one website in a written report of 150-200 words. Student should address the essential questions in the BookCarts in their reports.

Don't miss our written report model or PowerPoint presentation aides (model 1 or 2.)