strategy
Educating adults on prevention of communicable diseases
Synonyms:
Providing information and education on endemic communicable diseases Context:
Providing public information and health education. Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.For example, Agenda 21 suggests that widespread adult education should be undertaken on the use of oral rehydration therapy for diarrhoea, on treatment of respiratory infections and on prevention of communicable diseases.
[Epidemics] is a prizewinning Internet site, designed by students, at http://library.advanced.org/11170/.
Narrower:
Educating about HIV/AIDSProviding information and education on endemic communicable diseases Values:
DiseaseEducationDeformationInformationOvereducationMisinformationDisinformationNoncommunicable Subjects:
Medicine → PathologyMedicine → Specific diseases
Society → Adults
Information → Information
Societal Problems → Prevention
Education → Education
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
