Health, Disease And The Development Of medicines Flashcards
What is the world health organisation (WHO) responsible for?
Coordinating ways to improve health across the world
According to the WHO organisation what is good health?
A state of complete physical, social and mental well-being
What does physical well-being include?
Being free from disease, eating and sleeping well, getting regular activity, and limiting the intake of harmful substances such as alcohol or drugs
What does social well-being include?
How well you get on with other people, and also how your surroundings affect you
What does mental well-being include?
How you feel about yourself
What is disease?
A disease is a problem with a structure or process in the body that is not the result of an injury
What causes diseases?
A disease might be due to microorganisms getting into the body and changing how it works. Microorganisms that cause disease are called pathogens. Diseases caused by pathogens are communicable disease, as they can be passed from an infected person to other people
What are non-communicable diseases?
Diseases that are not passed from person to person. They are caused by a problem in the body, such as a fault in the genes (such as cystic fibrosis) or as a result of the way we live - our lifestyle
Diseases may be correlated, so that having one diseas means a person is more likely to have another disease. What 3 possible causes of correlation might there be?
One disease damaging the immune system, making it easier for other pathogens to cause disease
A disease damaging the body’s natural barriers and defences, allowing pathogens to get into the body more easily
A disease stops an organ system from working effectively, making other diseases more likely to occur
What is genetic disorder?
It is a type of non-communicable disease that is caused by faulty alleles of genes. Genetic disorders can be passed to offspring but not to any other person
What is malnutrition?
It is a type of non-communicable disease that occurs when you get too little or too much of particular nutrients from your food. The lack of a certain nutrient can cause a specific deficiency disease
What is kwashiorkor?
It’s a disease caused by the deficiency of protein.
Symptoms include - enlarged belly, small muscles, failure to grow proper
Good sources in diet - meat, fish, dairy, eggs, pulses (eg lentils)
What is scurvy?
It’s a disease caused by the deficiency of vitamin C
Symptoms include - swelling and bleeding gums, muscle and joint pains, tiredness
Good sources in diet - citrus fruits and some vegetables
What is rickets or osteomalacia?
A disease caused by the deficiency of vitamin D and/or calcium
Symptoms of disease - soft bones, curved leg bones
Good sources in diet - vitamin D: oily fish, calcium: dairy products
What is anaemia?
A disease caused by the deficiency of iron
Symptoms of disease - red blood cells that are smaller than normal and in reduced number, tiredness
Good sources in diet- red meat, dark green leafy vegetables, egg yolk
How are some disease caused by our lifestyle?
It includes whether we take enough excessive and whether we take drugs. Eat hand,, found in alcoholic drinks, is a drug because it changes the way the body works. Ethanol is broken down by the liver, and a large amount of ethanol taken over a long period can lead to a liver disease including cirrhosis
What is cirrhosis?
Damage to the lives caused by drinking large amounts of alcohol over a long period of time.
A cirrhosis liver does not function well and can result in death. Liver disease is the fifth largest cause of death in the uk.
Malnutrition caused by a diet that is high in sugars and fats can lead to what?
Obesity,me here large amounts of fat are formed under the skin and around organs such as the heart and kidneys
What is cardiovascular disease?
A disease in which the heart or circulatory system does not function properly.
One sigh of this is high blood pressure, which can lead to heart pain or even a heart attack
What is a heart attack?
When the heart stops pumping due to a lack of oxygen reaching part of its muscle tissue
How do you work out body mass index (BMI)?
Mass ➗ height squared
What is body mass index?
An estimate of how health a persons mass is for their height. An adult who has a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese
What is the fat that seems to be most closely linked with cardiovascular disease?
Abdominal fat, diving waists measure meant by hip measurement to get waist-to-hip ratio gives a better method of measuring abdominal fat than BMI
Why is smoking so harmful?
Tobacco smoke contains many harmful substances that can damage the lungs when they are breathed in. Some of these substances are absorbed from the lungs into the blood and are transported around the body. These substances can damage blood vessels, increase blood pressure, make blood vessels narrower and increase the risk of blood clots forming in blood vessels. All of theses can lead to cardiovascular disease
How can a stent treat cardiovascular disease?
A narrowed blood vessel can be widened by inserting a small mesh tube (stent) at the borrowers part to hold it open. Blocked arteries in the heart can be bypassed by inserting other blood vessels so that the heart tissue is supplied with oxygen and nutrients. Patients who have these operations may need to take medicine for the rest of their life to prevent a heart attack or a stroke
High blood pressure increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. What may a doctor advise a patient with high blood pressure?
To exercise more and give up smoking. If blood pressure is very high, then the patient may be given medicines to reduce it
What is cholera?
A bacteria infection of the small intestine which causes severe diarrhoea.
Filipino pacini was the first person to isolate a bacterium from people with cholera and to suggest that the bacterium caused the disease
Robert Koch proved that vibrio cholerae cause the disease
What is tuberculosis?
A communicable bacterial disease that infects the lungs.
It’s caused by the bacterium mycobacterium tuberculosis. This bacterium infects and damages the lungs, resulting in blood specked mucus after coughing, fever (high body temperature) and weight loss
What do we say humans are the host of?
Communicable diseases
What is chalara dieback?
A disease of ash trees caused by a fungus
What is malaria?
A dangerous disease caused by a protist called plasmodium which multiplies inside red blood cells and liver cells, when a new protist breaks out of these cells it causes serious fever, headaches and vomiting and can lead to death.
This is one of the greatest causes of human death between 124 million and 283 million of malaria cases each year
What are viruses?
Particles that can infect cells and cause the cells to make copies of the virus. They are not true organisms because they do not have a cellular structure. They multiply by infecting a cell and taking over the cells DNA-coping processes to make new viruses. Different viruses infect different organisms, including bacteria. Virus infections often affect many parts of the body at the same time.
What does the Ebola virus cause?
Causes the breakdown of blood vessels and liver and kidney cells. This leads to internal bleeding and fever, so causing haemorrhaging fever
What does the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) do?
It attacks and destroys white blood cells in the immune system. People infected with HIV often develop AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) because their immune systems cannot protect them from secondary infections. Many people die from these other infections, including TB
Many types of bacteria live in our bodies. Some are essential for our health, but others may not affect us most of the time. 50% of people have helicobacter pylori bacteria on their stomachs. What do 80% of these people never show symptoms of?
Of disease caused by these bacteria, but others may develop sore areas, called ulcers, where the bacteria attach the stomach lining
Most pathogens cannot grow outside their host, and so how must they spread?
From one host to another so they can increase in number. If we know how pathogens are spread, then we can find ways of stopping that spread
Infections such as colds, flu and tuberculosis cause a person to sneeze or cough. How do these infections spread?
This sends droplets containing pathogens into the air. Once in the air, flu viruses can survive for about a day. However TB bacteria can survive for months in air, and mix with dust that can blow around and infect another person.
How does fungi that causes chalara dieback spread?
In the air, as tiny spores (cells that grow into new organisms). Strong winds can carry chalara spores over long distances, such as to the southern uk from nearby Europe
What do some pathogens spread in?
In water,much as the bacteria that causes cholera, typos and dysentery (which all cause severe diarrhoea). These diseases are normally rare in developed countries, because the water that we use is treated to kill pathogens. We’ve got got hygiene. These diseases occur in very poor areas, after major environmental disasters, or in refugee camps
How can pathogens of the digestive system spread in food?
They enter he body through the mouth, which is described as the oral route. Helicobacter are though to be spread when people touch other people’s food after touching their mouths, or after going to the toilet. The bacteria may also spread on a fleet of flies that have fed on infected faces then landed on food
What is an epidemic?
When many people over a large are are infected with the same pathogen at the same time
What are vectors of disease?
Organisms that carry pathogens from one person to the next. Controlling the spread of the pathogen may involve controlling the spread of the vector
What do all viruses contain?
One or more strands of genetic material surrounded by a protein coat, or capsid, although many have additional layers surrounding the capsid
What is a capsid?
The protein coat of a virus