health and disease

Cards (17)

  • describe health
    state of physical and mental well being
  • describe disease
    major cause of ill health
  • give types of disease
    communicable and non communicable
  • describe communicable disease
    disease that can spread between different organisms
  • give examples of communicable diseases
    cold, malaria, meningitis and measles
  • describe noncommunicable disease
    disease that cannot spread between different organisms
  • give examples of non communicable disease
    cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma
  • give examples of interacting disease
    immune defect - communicable disease
    virus - cancer
    ill physical health - ill mental health
  • give factors affecting health
    diet, stress and lifestyle
  • give risk factors to non communicable disease
    smoking, alcohol, obesity and carcinogens
  • give disease affected by smoking
    cardiovascular disease, unborn baby issues and lung disease and cancer
  • give disease affected by alcohol
    liver disease, brain disease and unborn baby issues
  • give disease affect by obesity
    type II diabetes
  • give disease affected by carcinogens
    cancer
  • give types of costs of communicable disease
    human and financial
  • give human costs of non communicable disease
    suffering, lower quality of life and short lifespan
  • give financial costs to non communicable disease
    service, treatment, research and home adaptation or move