Health And Disease Flashcards
1
Q
Health
A
State of physical and mental wellbeing
2
Q
Diseases
A
Often responsible for causing ill health
3
Q
Communicable diseases
A
Those that can spread from person to person or between animals and people
E.g. measles and malaria
4
Q
Non-communicable diseases
A
Those that cannot spread between people or between animals and people
E.g. asthma, cancer and CHD
5
Q
What factors can affect your health?
A
Good balanced diet
Stress
Life situation - whether or not you have easy access to medicine to treat illness
6
Q
Risk factors
A
Increase you chance of getting a disease
7
Q
Risk factors that cause a disease directly?
A
Smoking - lung cancer
Obesity - Type 2 diabetes
Drinking too much alcohol - liver disease
