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How is health dynamic?

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The definition of health of health changed from one of complete well being to one that is subjective

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What makes us healthy?

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Clean water

Hygeine

Diet

Affluence

Home

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What is disease?

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A disorder of structure or function

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Are structure and function related?

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Yes, one determines the other

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What is pathology?

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Study of disease

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What does pathology research?

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Causes, development and progress

Appearence

Explains presentation

Rationals for treatment

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How is disease dynamic?

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Continuously evolving

Observations made sparodically

Patients live with it

Influenced by treatment

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What does knowing about disease allow us to do?

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Define abnormality

Explain what is wrong

Predict outcome

Treat on the basis of evidence

Research new therapies

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What is diagnoses?

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Define abnormality consistently

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What is prognosis?

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Predict outcome

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What is aetiology?

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Cause of disease

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What is pathogenesis?

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How it develops

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What are symptoms?

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What the patient feels

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What are signs?

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Our observations

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What are the basic functional categories of disease?

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Inflammatory

Disorders of circulation

Disorders of cell growth

Degenerative

Developmental

Conditions that do not occur naturally

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What is inflammation?

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Succesion of change occuring in living tissue when it is injured

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What are circulatory disorders?

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Abnormalities of flow, vessel wall and components of the blood

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What are disorders of growth?

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Abnormal cell growth, including maturation, differentiation, quantity and control

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What are degenerative disorders?

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Abnormalities of tissues and organs

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What are developmental disorders?

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Abnormalities of gametogenesis and embryogenesis

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What are unnatural conditions?

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Traumatic (accidental and deliberate) and iatrogenic (treatment related)

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