Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme
A healthy world? examines health problems across the world and raises questions about the reasons and possible solutions. The media give occasional coverage to these problems, but mostly ignore them until, for example, a British celebrity catches malaria and nearly dies. Meanwhile, 863,000 people die of malaria and 243 million suffer acute illness annually without much press attention. Young people are likely to support charities that aim to eradicate unnecessary sickness across the world, and this activity provides information about the breadth of the problem.
The activity can be used to supplement the suggestions in Unit 2 of Citizenship through tutorial: a staff manual with activities for personal and social learning, which examines a range of global issues.
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