Health and Disease Flashcards
1
Q
Communicable diseases?
A
diseases that can be spread from person to person.
2
Q
Non-communicable diseases?
A
diseases that cannot be spread between people.
3
Q
What are risk factors?
A
things that link to the increase in the likelihood that a person will develop a certain disease during their lifetime.
many non-communicable diseases are caused by several risk factors interacting with each other.
