Health and Disease Flashcards
1
Q
What is health?
A
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
2
Q
What aspects are covered by the definition health?
A
Public Physical Mental Emotional Social Sexual and reproductive Spiritual
3
Q
What contributes to good health?
A
- Clean water
- Sewers and treatment plans
- Healthy and adequate diet
- Food hygiene
- Personal hygiene
- Affluence
4
Q
In disease what are intimately related?
A
Structure and function
5
Q
Pathology
A
The study of disease including:
- causes, development, progress
- appearances
- explains presentation
- rational for treatment
6
Q
Diagnosis
A
Define the abnormality consistently
7
Q
Prognosis
A
Predict outcome
8
Q
Aetiology
A
Cause of disease
9
Q
Pathogenesis
A
How it develops
10
Q
Symptom
A
What the patient feels
11
Q
Sign
A
Doctor’s observations
12
Q
Macroscopic
A
naked eye
13
Q
Microscopic
A
with magnification
14
Q
Biochemical
A
at chemical level
15
Q
Pathophysiological
A
functional
16
Q
Pathology can be…
A
- Natural disease
- Unnatural conditions
17
Q
What kinds of natural disease are there?
A
Inflammation Circulatory disturbances Diseases of growth Degenerative disorders Developmental
18
Q
Unnatural conditions can be…
A
Traumatic
Iatrogenic
