health and disease

• give the definition of ' health'

  health is the state of physical and mental wellbeing
• true or false? communicable disease can be spread between people, or between animals and people.

  true. communicable diseases are contagious
• give two examples of non-communicable diseases

  asthma, cancer, coronary heart disease
• how would having HIV affect the likelihood of a person contracting a communicable disease, such a tuberculosis?

  HIV would make a person more likely to contract a communicable disease, because their body is less able to defend itself against pathogens
• suggest how a person's life situation could have an effect on their health

  a persons health could be affected by whether they have easy access to medicine to treat illness, or access to things that would prevent them from getting ill in the first place, such as healthy foods or condoms
• give two factors, other than disease and life situation, that can affect a person's health.

  diet and stress
• suggest how living with the physical symptoms of fibromyalgia could affect someone's health

  the physical effects of fibromyalgia may impact their ability to carry out everyday activities, which could lead to depression or other mental health issues.