2.2.5 Health Issues Flashcards
Health
- A state of physical and mental wellbeing
- Absence of disease
Types of health issues (5p)
Infectious
Mental
Inherited
Physical
Deficiency
Infectious disease
Caused by pathogens that spread between infected individuals
Mental disease
Can be caused by chemical imbalances in the brain
Inherited diseases
Conditions people are born with as a result of their genes
Physical disease
Usually causef by accidents or poor lifestyle choices
Deficiency disease
Lack of vitamins or minerals in the diet
Examples of infectious disease
Tuberculosis
Covid
Flu
Example of mental disease
Depression
Schizophrenia
Example of inherited disease
Down syndrome
Cystic fibrosis
Example of physical disease
Broken bones
Paralysis
Example of deficiency disease
Scurvy
Anaemia
What can cause allergies? (2p)
- immune reactions
- weak immune system
Malnutrition
- Bad nutrition
- Having a poor unbalanced diet
Factors effecting health (5p)
Life situations
Stress
Diet
Communicable diseases
Non communicable diseases
Life situation (factor effecting health) (3p)
- Can’t afford healthcare
- Poor
- Ethnic group
Stress (factor effecting health)
Mental health
Diet (factor effecting health) (3p)
- Malnutrition
- Starvation
- Defficiency
How is depression affected by other health issues?
- Can cause physical health problems
(Like not showering/looking after yourself)
How can viruses affect cells?
They can trigger changes that lead to cancers
How can defects in the immune system lead to other health issues?
- Defects meen your immune system won’t work as well as it should
- Can cause allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases
Autoimmune disease
When your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake
