5.1 Health and Disease

Question 1

What are communicable diseases?

Answer 1

Caused by pathogens and are passed from person to person(e.g tuberculosis, flu, chicken pox, cold)

Question 2

What are non-communicable diseases?

Answer 2

Cannot be passed from one person to another (e.g heart disease, cancer, diabetes and arthritis)

Question 3

What is health?

Answer 3

A state of physical and mental well-being

Question 4

What factors affect our health?

Answer 4

-diet
-stress
-life situations

Question 5

How does your diet affect your health?

Answer 5

-if you don’t eat enough or the right nutrients
-suffer from starvation to anaemia
-if you eat too much
-suffer from obesity, cancer or type 2 diabetes

Question 6

How does stress affect our health?

Answer 6

-too much stress increases chance of developing wide range of health problems
-eg. heart disease, cancer and mental health

Question 7

How does life situations affect your health?

Answer 7

-provokes stress
-leads to communicable diseases
-and non-communicable diseases

Question 8

State the trend of a graph

Answer 8

positive, negative or no correlation

Question 9

Describe the trend of a graph

Answer 9

as…..increases/decreases…. also…increases/decreases

Question 10

What do viruses do?

Answer 10

-live in cells
-trigger changes that lead to cancer

Question 11

What is malnutrition?

Answer 11

-deficiency diseases
-weakened immune system
-obesity
-cancer

Question 12

What is an immune reaction?

Answer 12

-Caused by pathogens
-Trigger allergies

Question 13

What does the immune system do?

Answer 13

-Destroy pathogens
-get better