Health and Disease

• Define health

  A state of physical and mental wellbeing
• Name 3 factors that cause good health

  Balanced diet

  sufficient exercise and sleep

  Access to medical care (in particular preventative medicines for example vaccines)
• What is a factor that worsens health?

  Stress
• Define disease

  A wide rage of conditions which cause ill health
• What 2 diseases can diseases be categorised by

  communicable diseases
• What are communicable diseases?

  Diseases that can be spread from person to person
• What are non communicable diseases caused by?

  Viruses, bacteria, aresites and fungi
• What are 3 examples of communicable diseases?

  Common cold, malaria, meningitis
• What are non communicable diseases?

  Diseases that can't be spread from person to person
• What are 4 examples of non communicable diseases?

  Cancer, diabetes, coronary heart disease, asthma