This interactive website is a lesson for students in determining the factors that divide developed and developing countries. Major health issues of each are also included. Archived.

Find an array of environmental and science-based lesson plans, activities and ideas from the EPA, other federal agencies, and external organizations.

The problems of global warming are examined from the following perspectives: climate pattern changes, health effects, and ecosystem disruption. You will also find a number of NRDC related webpages further amplifying the topic of global...

A comprehensive look at the global issues and events that are impacting countries across the world. Disasters, living conditions, crises, diseases, and the humanitarian efforts are all detailed on this site.

This reference source provides directions for emergency preparedness and how to respond to emergencies.

CIDA, in partnership with Canadian Geographic, have created a resource which allows students to investigate the quality of life in over 200 countries by examining various Human Development Index indicators. Students may search by...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty-three data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine health issues and how the environment impacts health in areas around the globe. They look at a...

Canada has exhibited leadership internationally in the protection of women's rights, security, and health. This website offers a comprehensive Canadian government policy and partnership list in gender equality and UN initiatives to...

Describe the networks within the health care systems internationally, explore the impact of the SARS epidemic on world health and examine the effectiveness of the World Health Organization in communicable disease surveillance and response.

Explore resources to connect the cultural, social, economic and political effects of disease on individuals, families and communities. Study philanthropic efforts of Bill Gates, research world health issues and write a grant proposal.

This World Health Organization site offers information on the history of leprosy as well as the way the disease works and current efforts toward global elimination.

Young scholars are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the...

International relief and development organization that strives to combat hunger, deprivation and physical affliction for those in need.

Learn the eight goals that the United Nations had set forth for the Millennium and read about how we have been doing. There is also a link to a new site where the UN has set seventeen new goals for 2016 and beyond.

Students are introduced to the fundamentals of environmental engineering as well as the global air, land and water quality concerns facing today's environmental engineers. After a lesson and activity to introduce environmental...

A comprehensive guide to climate change in Canada. This site offers both a national look and then looks at the implications of climate change on specific regions and provinces.

Students learn about limited health resources in Mozambique and innovative approaches taken there and in other countries to combat public health problems. They will learn about the importance of healthcare for women and children. The...

Miniature Earth reduces the world's population to 100 to underscore the dramatic differences in wealth, age, faith, education, environment, and health among people who live on this planet. An excellent apply-what-you-know site for...

A pre-assessment at the beginning of a unit on global atmospheric change. It checks understanding of issues around climate change and the impact it has on the environment and on human health. The lesson and accompanying slideshow can...

Gapminder collects hundreds of statistics related to global economic, health, and social development and analyzes the relationships between them across different countries and time (a few indicators go back to 1800).

A video of Patrick Dixon explaining the possible dangers of radiation from mobile phones and a list of recent findings related to the controversy over whether or not mobile phone radiation causes damage to the brain, thereby increasing...

This is the homepage of the IMA World Health, whose mission is to provide essential products and services for emergency, health and development programs of interest to members, which serve people in need without regard to ethnicity,...

This resource uses a map and newspaper articles to provide a broad overview of the contemporary 'brain drain' of healthcare workers. Its goal is to further understand the dynamics of contemporary migrations of healthcare workers and to...

Use this interactive activity to find ways out of a building in case of a fire, locate smoke detectors, and identify a safe meeting spot.