Health and Disease Flashcards
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A pathogen
Disease causing microbes
Give an example of pathogens
Bacteria, Virus, fungi and protists
What is a communicable disease
A disease that can be spread to a human either directly or indirectly
What is a bacteria
A single celled organism that is prokaryotic
What can a virus do
Infect every living organism
Definition of health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Who was Ignaz Semmelweis
The first physician in medical history who demonstrated that child bed fever was contagious
What did Ignaz suggest
It was the lack of hygiene that was the problem
What did he make madatory
He made washing hand mandatory for medical students and physicians.
What did Ignaz make them wash there hands with
Chlorinated lime water until the smell of the corpses went away
What is a protist
a simple eukaryotic cell
