Health

Health includes subtopics such as life expectancy, health care, and measures to eradicate disease such as vaccines. Each of the graphs below was selected to demonstrate changes related to human health around the world.

To view a larger version of a graph, click on it and follow the link to the USA Facts website. You may have to scroll down the page on the website to find the graph, but the title will help you locate it.

Your group's assignment is to select 3-4 graphs that you think illustrate the most important changes in health that have occurred over the last 10 - 20 years. You will present these graphs in a Google Slide presentation and explain why your group chose them. Remember to write your explanation under speaker notes.

Black and white picture of a doctors hand with a vaccination needle and a child in the background watching

Digital Public Library: Resources on Polio

Black and white picture of a large room with tall ceilings and rows of hospital beds with sick people in them.

Library of Congress: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918

A poster with a black background, a red triangle in the middle and text on the bottem in bold type that says silence equals death

ACT UP and the AIDS Crisis

A picture of a scientist in a lab working with a syringe and beaker

U.S. National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine

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