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1
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How is health dynamic?

A

The definition of health of health changed from one of complete well being to one that is subjective

2
Q

What makes us healthy?

A

Clean water

Hygeine

Diet

Affluence

Home

3
Q

What is disease?

A

A disorder of structure or function

4
Q

Are structure and function related?

A

Yes, one determines the other

5
Q

What is pathology?

A

Study of disease

6
Q

What does pathology research?

A

Causes, development and progress

Appearence

Explains presentation

Rationals for treatment

7
Q

How is disease dynamic?

A

Continuously evolving

Observations made sparodically

Patients live with it

Influenced by treatment

8
Q

What does knowing about disease allow us to do?

A

Define abnormality

Explain what is wrong

Predict outcome

Treat on the basis of evidence

Research new therapies

9
Q

What is diagnoses?

A

Define abnormality consistently

10
Q

What is prognosis?

A

Predict outcome

11
Q

What is aetiology?

A

Cause of disease

12
Q

What is pathogenesis?

A

How it develops

13
Q

What are symptoms?

A

What the patient feels

14
Q

What are signs?

A

Our observations

15
Q

What are the basic functional categories of disease?

A

Inflammatory

Disorders of circulation

Disorders of cell growth

Degenerative

Developmental

Conditions that do not occur naturally

16
Q

What is inflammation?

A

Succesion of change occuring in living tissue when it is injured

17
Q

What are circulatory disorders?

A

Abnormalities of flow, vessel wall and components of the blood

18
Q

What are disorders of growth?

A

Abnormal cell growth, including maturation, differentiation, quantity and control

19
Q

What are degenerative disorders?

A

Abnormalities of tissues and organs

20
Q

What are developmental disorders?

A

Abnormalities of gametogenesis and embryogenesis

21
Q

What are unnatural conditions?

A

Traumatic (accidental and deliberate) and iatrogenic (treatment related)