Diseases

• Communicable diseases can spread from person to person or between animals and people
• communicable diseases are spread by pathogen (.bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi )
• Noncommunicable diseases cannot be spread between people or animals and people
• Non communicable diseases generally last for a long time and get worse slowly
• Health is defined as the state of physical and mental well-being
• Sometimes diseases can interact and cause physical and mental health issues
• Factors that can affect your health:

  • Diet
  • Stress
  • Life situation- accessibility to medicine, access to things that can prevent you getting ill
• Risk factors are often aspects of a persons lifestyle (e.g. exercise)

  They can be presence of certain substances in the environment (e.g. air pollution) or substances in your body (e.g. asbestos fibres)