B5.1))) Infectious Disease Revision

Question 1

What are communicable diseases caused by?

Answer 1

Pathogens.

Question 2

What are 2 examples of a non-communicable disease?

Answer 2

Heart disease.

Arthritis.

Question 3

What factors affect health?

Answer 3

Diet.
Stress.
Life situations: part of world where live, gender, financial status, ethnic group, levels free health care provided where live, quantity of children, local sewage + rubbish disposal.

Question 4

What is a pathogen?

Answer 4

Microorganism enters body causes disease.
Microorganisms cause communicable diseases.
Plants + animals can infected pathogens.

Question 5

What is a communicable disease?

Answer 5

Disease transferred 1 person to another person.
Animal to person.
Classed as contagious or infectious diseases.

Question 6

What is a toxin?

Answer 6

Causes symptoms when toxin produced by bacteria.

Question 7

What is a protist?

Answer 7

Single celled eukaryotes.
Lots alternate types protist.
Some=parasites.
Parasites transferred by vector.