Communiable and non-communiable diseases.

Question 1

What are communicable diseases?

Answer 1

• Can spread from one person to another person and is infectious.
• Spread by pathogens such as bacteria or viruses.

Question 2

What is non-communicable diseases?

Answer 2

• Cannot be passed from one person to another.
• Non-infectious.
• E.g: Coronary Heart Diseases.

Question 3

What is health?

Answer 3

• Defined as the state of physical and mental-well being.
• Ill health can be caused by both;
• Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases.
• Poor Diet.

Question 4

Example 1 ~TB.

Answer 4

• Communicable lung disease.
• Can be fatal.
  Most people: immune system can fight off TB.
• Some People: defective immune system for example people with HIV/

Question 5

Which people are more likely to suffer from infectionous diseases?

Answer 5

• People with a defective immune system.

Question 6

What is HPV?

Answer 6

• Extremely common.
• In most people it is harmless.
• Some people: HPV can cause cervical cancer.
• Around 3000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year in the uk.

Question 7

What are most cervical cancers caused by?

Answer 7

• HPV.

- Infects the cells of the cervix.

Question 8

What is another way a disease can be triggered from?

Answer 8

• immune system.
• E.g: Allergies.
• Asthma.
• Body is infected by a pathogen that the immune system fights off but person is left with an allergy.