Health And Disease

Question 1

What is health?

Answer 1

Health is the state of physical and mental wellbeing.

Question 2

What is often responsible for causing ill health?

Answer 2

Diseases

Question 3

What are the two categories of disease?

Answer 3

Non-communicable and communicable

Question 4

What are communicable diseases?

Answer 4

Diseases that can spread from person to person, or between animals and people.

Question 5

What are the 4 pathogens?

Answer 5

Bacteria, viruses, protists, and fungi

Question 6

Give 2 examples of communicable diseases

Answer 6

Malaria and measles

Question 7

What are non-communicable diseases?

Answer 7

Diseases that can not be spread between people or between animals and people, and are normally developed or genetic.

Question 8

Do non-communicable diseases last for a long time?

Answer 8

Yes, and they get worse slowly

Question 9

Give 3 examples of non-communicable diseases

Answer 9

Asthma, cancer, and coronary heart disease

Question 10

Give 3 factors that could lead to health issues

Answer 10

A poor diet, stress, life situation