Health And Disease Flashcards

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Health?

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The state or being free from illness or injury or the state of well being physically mentally and socially

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Disease?

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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

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Communicable diseases?

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Disease passed from creature to creature (Covid 19)

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Non communicable?

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Diseases NOT passed from one another. They are caused by a problem in the body such as a fault in the genes (autism

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3 disease ability’s?

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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

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