Communicable and Non-Communicable Disease

• Communicable diseases


  Diseases that can be spread from person to person
• Non-communicable diseases


  Diseases that cannot be passed from person to person
• Diseases can cause ill health, which is defined as the state of physical and mental well-being
• Ill health can be caused by communicable and non-communicable diseases, poor diet, high levels of stress, and other life situations
• People with a defective immune system

  Are much more likely to suffer from infectious diseases
• Infection with HPV

  Can cause cervical cancer
• Infection with a pathogen


  Can trigger an allergy
• Physical illness (arthritis)


  Can trigger a mental illness (depression)