Non-communicable diseases

Question 1

What are some factors for disease? (in general)

Answer 1

Your lifestyle, carcinogens

Question 2

define carcinogen

Answer 2

Agents in the environment that cause non-communicable diseases e.g ionising radiation

Question 3

define casual mechanism

Answer 3

The explanation of how one factor influences another through a biological process

Question 4

what is an example of a casual mechanism

Answer 4

smoking tobacco can increase your chance of getting lung cancer

Question 5

define correlation

Answer 5

similarities in the patterns between non-communicable diseases, often suggesting a link or relation between the two

Question 6

What’s one thing to remember about correlations

Answer 6

It doesn’t prove that one thing is the cause of another

Question 7

what is an example of a correlation

Answer 7

cardiovascular disease or lung cancer with lifestyle factors such as not exercising or smoking

Question 8

What are some impacts of non-communicable diseases?

Answer 8

loss of money for a family or the government because of the cost of treatment and not being able to pay tax because the loss of your job

Question 9

What one affects more people? Communicable diseases or non-communicable diseases?

Answer 9

Non-communicable diseases