2. Answer the questions.

• What infectious diseases do you know?

• What helps to prevent complications?

• What must we do to prevent the spread of infection?

• What is the first symptom of many infectious diseases?

• How can the disease pass from one person to another?

• Vaccine helps to protect children against infectious diseases, doesn't it?

3. Are the statements true or false? Correct the false ones.

• To have a healthy lifestyle means to take vitamins regularly.

• A healthy lifestyle helps you keep fit.

• You needn't pay at the private hospital.

• When somebody has an accident he goes to the specialist.

• You can buy pills, tablets and other medicine at the hospital.

• You should tell a doctor about the symptoms of your disease.

• To be on a diet is dangerous for your health.

• If you are sick, don't consult a doctor.

• Children are usually afraid of injections.

4.

Mother and Child Health

Vocabulary Presentation

Learn the topical words.

obstetrical-gynecological - акушерсько-гінекологічний

appropriate care – належне піклування

preventive-cure measures – лікувально-профілактичні засоби

disorder – розлад, хвороба

progeny – потомство

pregnancy – вагітність

delivery – пологи

availability – наявність

ailment – хвороба

Read the text. Mother and Child Health

Specialized medical care is given to the baby beginning with its first day of life at inpatient and polyclinic establishments for children. A special obstetrical-gynecological and pediatric service has been established in Ukraine.

Specialized medical establishments provide appropriate care for future mothers and newborns through diagnostic and preventive-cure measures to help women overcome different disorders and prevent them from affecting the progeny.

Women who suffer, for instance, from heart defects are placed, at the time of pregnancy and during delivery, under the observation of obstetricians, therapeutists, immunologists, hematologists.

Thanks to timely medical care and availability of specific instrumentation and equipment at our hospitals, the women who suffer from such ailments go through pregnancy and delivery successfully. All mother and child health advisory centers conduct disease prevention and cure work.

Our medical science devotes much attention to the health of mother and child.

At present there are some research institutes for pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology and mother and child care in Ukraine. Their research and methods o treatment help to control infantile infectious diseases. This comes from the tremendous efforts of our scientists.

Our medical science pays attention to the health of mother and child.

1. Ask 10 questions based on the text.

2. Make up a plan of the text.