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Chapter 14- Immune System Flashcards

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what 3 microbes invade the body ?

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bacteria, fungi, virus

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How can these get your body?: Transmission (4)

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indirect
direct
mechanical
biological

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direct transmission

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Involved bodily contact or fluid based (handshake,

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indirect transmission

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microbes passed via airborne (dusts, soil, food)

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Biological transmission

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some transmitting agent picks up modifies it in to (mosquito or ticks snd bite humans)

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mechanical transmission

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passage of microbes to individual by means of corner that not directly involved in diseases processes (water contaminated with rats that carry fleas with a diseases

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How can these get your body? infection (3)

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localized
focal
systematic

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localizedL

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cut, strep throat

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focal

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confined to one are but goes to other parts of the body

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systematic

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numbers of areas in the body are infected

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what is true but these 3?

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can go from one to other start with throat (localized) `

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what is the course of infection?

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incubation:
NONE SPECIFIC
actue phase
decline

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incubagtion

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DONT Feel sick

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none specfic

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symptoms

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acute phase

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disease and symptoms are at their height

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decline

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start to feel bettr

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How can these get your body? Immunity:

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body resistance to harm from invading organisms

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Immunity: specific immunity

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natural; get memory cells to to remember microbes and how to fight it
artificial- vaccines

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Immunity: non-specific immunity

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these are not specific to the illness
-anotomical barreirs: skin, nose hair
-phagocytocis- certain white blood cells inject microbes
-antimicrobal subs: chemicals: interphene, HCL
-inflammatory responses: extra h2o come into body to allow cells to move around more easily.

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Immunity: humoral

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creating antibodies through the use of B lymposites

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Immunity; cell-mediadted immunity

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t-lympstyes hangout in lymph ssytens

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How can these get your body? lymphatic system

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tonsils, thymus, gland, spleen

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stress and immunity in humans

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anticpatinfig injury

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immune response as a function of length of stressor

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-mvment from cell movement(t-cell) to humor(b-cells)
-whole immune system constantly weakening not going to function

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what are some examples of stress studies

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-astronaourat(psych/pysiologaical stress)
-natural disaster;
-DAILY hassles

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Health risks?

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when under stress show higher increase in illness

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Marital disruption and conflict

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associated with lower immune functioning even short term stress

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who gets cargive

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elderly babies

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who take care of them

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women more likely to take care of babies and parents

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what are some challenges with seeing someone decline

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not seeing improvement
fewer % of t-cels

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protective effects of resources

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family members can help take care of kids, flexiblejob,

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optimism.

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tied to beter immune func

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personal control

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feel that stress is under control

34
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How does one get HIV

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Transmission and exchange of fluid and compromises immune system by impacting T-cells

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How does HIV turn into aids?

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HIV(virus) makes you vulnerable to other diseases (cancer)

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Antiviral Therapy

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Remove traces of the body of the virus

37
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Who were the first population with aids

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gay men
drug use(sharing needles)

38
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How did these two populations impact people disclosing they had aids

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because they did not want to admit it cuz of how you get ir

39
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what is true about mental health issues people with HIV

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All illness come with mental health issues (stress) they gave good SS fgourps to comfort them. However for HIV people not disclosing cuz ashamed and don have SS

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Women in HIV

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a lack of disclosure from partners and they end up getting HIV

41
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Interventions for HIV

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Prevent aids
safe sex

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What is the challenge with Interventions

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have to keep teaching others and reaching to populations can’t just stop

43
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what is true about guys in prison

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having sex with men then go home to wife and have sex with. They dont consider themselves gay so they consider themselves as a risk for HIV

44
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What is Cancer

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Our body destroy cells we dont need but if it doesn’t they start to multiply and go to other part of the body

45
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Stress and cancer (3)

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-higher stress can dvp stress
-loss of SS can affect already onset cnscer
-higiher coping strategies can decrease cancer and better health outcomes

46
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why is hard to adjust to cancer

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nausea , fatigues, lac of sleep, can be caused of cancer or the treatment

47
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Intervention for cancer(4)

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-preventing it(screening)
-mindfulnness
-improving health beh
-pain mangemtnet
-therapyp

48
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what is arthritis

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joints are worked out (used to much)

49
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types of arthritis

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Osteoarthirtis-he cartilage within a joint begins to break down
Gout
-lupus
-juvenile arthritis
-Rheumtiod-the body’s immune system attacks its own tissue, including joints (women more likely)

50
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Arthrisitis Stress challenge

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can become cynical
-worrying about having pain can make you stressed
-pain to move so dont move but can reduce athirst by moving

51
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what is type 1 diabetes

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pancreas stops producing insulin which then increases blood sugar so have to recive insulin through injections

52
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diabetes management

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be careful what they eat constranly monitoring when needs shot

53
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diabetes problem with kids

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kids dont want to do what parents say
-dont want to be treated different but have to cuz they got diabetes

54
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what are the most common symptoms we can regognize

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anything pain (back, joints, head, chest)

55
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individual diff: Hypochondriacs

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people that are convinced that what are normal bodily sysmptoms are indicators of illness

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Individual diference : Age

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old people experience more Symp than young

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individual diff: neurotsim

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report symptoms more quickly

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Attentional diff

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can recognize symptoms if they are more focused on the self then if more externally focus (others)

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situationsal factors

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if you are in boring situations you not using your mind so more focused on body

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Stress: Recog of Symprions

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stress can aggravate symptoms and therefore make symptoms more noticeable

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mood and emotions recognizing symptoms

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if good mood people think they healthier bad mood report more negative health symptoms

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Interpretation of symptoms: Prior experience

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if you have had these symptoms in the past or someone else then better able to interrupt it

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Interpretation of symptoms: expectations

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we ignore the symptoms we expect but amplify the ones we dont expect

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Interpretation of symptoms: seriousness of the symptoms

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more concerned with symptoms that threatened valued body parts (heart, head)

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commonsense of model of illness

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schema of illness (identify, causes, timeline)

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Illness represernatotion

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view lines as
acute - short term flu
chronic-long-term heart diseases
cynical-come and go flare ip periods of time (herpes)

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Lay Referral network

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other people try to diagnose you when tell symptoms

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who uses health Services: Age

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Older people and very young babies

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who uses health Services: Gender

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Women because of pregnancy
also have better homeostatic mechanisms (better able to detect symptoms)
more fragmented health (gene, primary, OB)

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who uses health Services: social class

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higher income cuz they can afford it

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who uses health Services: Culture

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some cultures distrust in professional

72
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Social Psychological factors: Health belief model

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belief that you have an illness and can do something about it

73
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social psychological factors: theory of planned behavior

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more positive attitude more likely to see provider

74
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Misusing health services: Psychological causes of physical symptoms

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when a person has high level of anxiety and feel heart palpitation they going to doctor but they should address the anxiety

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Misusing health services: worried well

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they are healthy but they are scared that they are not healthy buecusae they heard it on the news

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Misusing health services: Somatization

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they express there distress/conflict through bodily symptoms. fighting with wife have headache shouldn’t go to doctor but marriage counsel

77
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Misusing health services: Seconday gains

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extend illness to get gains like cooked meals, peeps checking up on you, more lseep

78
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Misusing health services: Hypochadiras

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look up

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