Lesson 3: Health and non- communicable disease Flashcards
What is health?
- Health is the state of physical and mental wellbeing.
What are non- communicable diseases?
- Diseases that aren’t caused by pathogens. (instead by risk factors)
- Can’t be passed from person to person.
What are communicable diseases?
- Caused by pathogens
- Can spread from person to person.
What main factors have a big impact on health?
- Communicable/ non- communicable disease.
- Life situations
- Stress
- Diet
Give a life situation someone may be in that would make them prone to poor health.
- Working with harmful chemicals.
What type of disease is more common if there is immune defects?
- Infectious disease ie. TB
If someone has HPV (virus), what could they develop?
- Cervical cancer
- Viruses may cause cervical cancer.
What can immune reactions sometimes trigger?
- May trigger allergies like skin rashes and asthma.
pathogen is engulfed but they are left with alergy
Give 4 examples as to how diseases interract.
- Immune defects (HIV) = more infectious disease
- Viruses in cells (HPV/ Hepatitis) = cancer
- Immune reactions from pathogens = allergies (skin rashes/ asthma)
- Severe physical ill health can lead to depression
What is a risk factor?
- Something that causes an increased rate of disease.
What is epidemiology?
- Epidemiology is studying patterns of disease to determine risk factors.
If there is a positive correlation between smoking and developing lung cancer, does that mean smoking causes lung cancer.
- No. It only means that they may be linked.
What is a causal mechanism?
- When scientists try to find a scientific definition as to how a lifestyle habit is causing disease.
What is the issue with sampling people from one town to see the effect diet has on a disease?
- It is **biased **
- The town may have below average exercise which is increasing disease.
How do you avoid bias in a sample?
- Large sample
- Random sample