Health And Disease Flashcards
Health?
The state or being free from illness or injury or the state of well being physically mentally and socially
Disease?
A problem with a structure/process within the body that isn’t the result of a injury or microorganisms getting into the body and changing it all together
Communicable diseases?
Disease passed from creature to creature (Covid 19)
Non communicable?
Diseases NOT passed from one another. They are caused by a problem in the body such as a fault in the genes (autism
3 disease ability’s?
1) damaging the immune system making it easier to cause disease
2) diseases damage to the body’s barriers/defenses allowing pathogens to get in more easily
3) diseases can make an organ structure system stop working making more disease