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From the Ted Talk by Raj Panjabi: Community health heroes

Unscramble the Blue Letters

RP: Epidemic diseases like Ebola, HIV, Zika, emerge from romtee, rraul communities including the rain frosets of West and cntaerl Africa. These are the hotspots of disease. They're the hotspots of infections. They're the hotspots of death that are located in the blindspots of the global health system. The idea that disease anywhere can be a tarhet to people everywhere is very real. So how do we stop this? Well, it's to enable community health workers to prenvet, detect and respond to outbreaks at their very source.

Open Cloze

RP: Epidemic diseases like Ebola, HIV, Zika, emerge from ______, _____ communities including the rain _______ of West and _______ Africa. These are the hotspots of disease. They're the hotspots of infections. They're the hotspots of death that are located in the blindspots of the global health system. The idea that disease anywhere can be a ______ to people everywhere is very real. So how do we stop this? Well, it's to enable community health workers to _______, detect and respond to outbreaks at their very source.

Solution

  1. remote
  2. forests
  3. rural
  4. prevent
  5. central
  6. threat

Original Text

RP: Epidemic diseases like Ebola, HIV, Zika, emerge from remote, rural communities including the rain forests of West and Central Africa. These are the hotspots of disease. They're the hotspots of infections. They're the hotspots of death that are located in the blindspots of the global health system. The idea that disease anywhere can be a threat to people everywhere is very real. So how do we stop this? Well, it's to enable community health workers to prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks at their very source.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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community health 11
health workers 9
health care 5
health worker 3
remote communities 2
family doctor 2

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community health workers 9

Important Words

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  2. blindspots
  3. central
  4. communities
  5. community
  6. death
  7. detect
  8. disease
  9. diseases
  10. ebola
  11. emerge
  12. enable
  13. epidemic
  14. forests
  15. global
  16. health
  17. hiv
  18. hotspots
  19. idea
  20. including
  21. infections
  22. located
  23. outbreaks
  24. people
  25. prevent
  26. rain
  27. real
  28. remote
  29. respond
  30. rural
  31. source
  32. stop
  33. system
  34. threat
  35. west
  36. workers
  37. zika