Q&A guide

Which health terms should I learn first?

Start with policy level words, service level words, and outcome words. Learn 15 items per week, 3 per day, review on day 6.

Policy and systems

• public health [জনস্বাস্থ্য]
  Collocations: public health campaign, public health policy
  Audio line: The city launched a public health campaign on dengue.
• primary care [প্রাথমিক চিকিৎসা]
  Collocations: primary care clinic, access to primary care
  Audio line: Rural primary care clinics reduce travel time.
• preventive care [প্রতিরোধমূলক চিকিৎসা]
  Collocations: preventive care programme, preventive screening
  Audio line: Preventive care lowers long term costs.

Conditions and risks

• communicable disease [সংক্রামক রোগ]
  Collocations: control communicable diseases, disease surveillance
  Audio line: Early surveillance contained the outbreak.
• non communicable disease [অসংক্রামক রোগ]
  Collocations: NCD burden, NCD prevention
  Audio line: Diet and exercise reduce the NCD burden.
• malnutrition [পুষ্টিহীনতা]
  Collocations: acute malnutrition, child malnutrition
  Audio line: Vouchers cut child malnutrition in two wards.

Services and actions

• vaccination [টিকাদান]
  Collocations: vaccination drive, vaccination coverage
  Audio line: The vaccination drive reached remote unions.
• screening [স্ক্রিনিং, প্রাথমিক পরীক্ষা]
  Collocations: cancer screening, mass screening
  Audio line: Cancer screening detects issues early.

Outcomes and equity

• life expectancy [গড় আয়ু]
  Collocations: raise life expectancy, life expectancy gap
  Audio line: Clean water helped raise life expectancy.
• health disparity [স্বাস্থ্য বৈষম্য]
  Collocations: reduce health disparity, urban rural disparity
  Audio line: New clinics aim to reduce health disparity.

Example 1
Weak: The government did many health works.
Better: The government funded primary care clinics and a vaccination drive to reduce health disparity.

How do I practise with audio if I have no recordings?

Use a 90 second loop. Read the audio line aloud twice, record once on your phone, then compare stress and joins. Mark the headword in bold when reading. Repeat daily.

Example 2
Term: preventive care.
Line: Preventive care lowers long term costs.
Drill: say the line twice, keep care joined to lowers, then record.

Measured target: 3 items per day, 90 seconds each, total 5 to 6 minutes.

What collocations make my writing sound natural?

Pair verbs and nouns that often co occur. Use one per sentence.

• provide primary care, expand coverage, fund a programme
• reduce health disparity, improve access, monitor outbreaks
• encourage vaccination, launch a campaign, deliver services

Mini case
Farzana needs clearer vocabulary for a proposal on rural clinics. She picks eight terms, runs the audio loop, and rewrites one paragraph. Old line: The plan will help villagers. New line: The plan will expand access to primary care and reduce travel time through two new clinics. Her supervisor marks tighter wording and a concrete action pair.

Which mistakes should I avoid?

• Memorising rare terms without collocations. Learn pairs like reduce disparity before niche jargon.
• Translating whole sentences. Keep the Bangla gloss short, 1 to 3 words.
• Mixing syllabus and curriculum style confusion from education topics into health. Stay field specific.
• Overclaiming with fake numbers. Use careful phrases, small rise, remained stable, sharp fall.

What edge cases should I know?

• Regional terms: Some clinics use local names. Add a note in brackets if useful, for example community clinic [কমিউনিটি ক্লিনিক].
• Sensitive topics: Use neutral language for mental health and stigma.
• Plural rules: Say data are in formal reports, data is in everyday speech. Match your context.

Can you give a short sub deck for Speaking Part 2?

Pick one service and one outcome.

• maternal health [মাতৃ স্বাস্থ্য]
  Collocations: maternal health service, maternal health outcomes
  Audio line: Maternal health services improved after training.
• health literacy [স্বাস্থ্য জ্ঞান]
  Collocations: improve health literacy, low health literacy
  Audio line: Apps can improve health literacy for teenagers.

Template: Describe a public health campaign you know. Say what it targeted, how it worked, and what outcome changed.

How do I measure progress each week?

• Count items learned, target 15.
• Record one 60 second monologue using at least 6 deck terms.
• In writing, upgrade 4 vague phrases to precise collocations, for example help people to improve access.

Mini glossary

• Outbreak: a sudden rise in disease cases in an area.
• Surveillance: ongoing data collection to track disease trends.
• Coverage: percentage of people who receive a service, for example vaccination.
• Equity: fair access to services across groups.
• NCD: non communicable disease such as diabetes or heart disease.

Actionable closing
Choose 9 items from this deck. Make three cards per day with gloss, two collocations, and one audio line to shadow. Run the 90 second loop for each. Write two sentences this week using reduce health disparity and expand access to primary care. Record a 60 second summary on Sunday and tick any term you used naturally.