B5 Health and Disease

Question 1

What is the WHO definition of good health?

Answer 1

A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing.

Question 2

What causes disease?

Answer 2

Pathogens

Question 3

What disease is caused by a lack of protein?

Answer 3

Kwashiokor

Question 4

What disease is caused by a lack of vitamin C?

Answer 4

Scurvy

Question 5

What disease is caused by a lack of vitamin D and/or calcium

Answer 5

Rickets/osteomalacia

Question 6

What disease is caused by a lack of iron?

Answer 6

Anaemia

Question 7

What is cardiovascular disease?

Answer 7

The circulatory system functioning poorly

Question 8

What is the formula for BMI?

Answer 8

Mass/height^2

Question 9

How can you treat cardiovascular disease?

Answer 9

The patient may be advised to give up smoking and exercise more or given medicine. A narrowed vessel may be widened by inserting a stent or blocked arteries can by bypassed by heart bypass surgery

Question 10

What symptoms do you have if you’re infected with cholera?

Answer 10

Diarrhoea

Question 11

What symptoms do trees have if they’re infected with chalara ash dieback?

Answer 11

Lesions and leaf loss