Health & Disease Flashcards
<p>How is health dynamic?</p>
<p>The definition of health of health changed from one of complete well being to one that is subjective</p>
<p>What makes us healthy?</p>
<p>Clean water</p>
<p>Hygeine</p>
<p>Diet</p>
<p>Affluence</p>
<p>Home</p>
<p>What is disease?</p>
<p>A disorder of structure or function</p>
<p>Are structure and function related?</p>
<p>Yes, one determines the other</p>
<p>What is pathology?</p>
<p>Study of disease</p>
<p>What does pathology research?</p>
<p>Causes, development and progress</p>
<p>Appearence</p>
<p>Explains presentation</p>
<p>Rationals for treatment</p>
<p>How is disease dynamic?</p>
<p>Continuously evolving</p>
<p>Observations made sparodically</p>
<p>Patients live with it</p>
<p>Influenced by treatment</p>
<p>What does knowing about disease allow us to do?</p>
<p>Define abnormality</p>
<p>Explain what is wrong</p>
<p>Predict outcome</p>
<p>Treat on the basis of evidence</p>
<p>Research new therapies</p>
<p>What is diagnoses?</p>
<p>Define abnormality consistently</p>
<p>What is prognosis?</p>
<p>Predict outcome</p>
<p>What is aetiology?</p>
<p>Cause of disease</p>
<p>What is pathogenesis?</p>
<p>How it develops</p>
<p>What are symptoms?</p>
<p>What the patient feels</p>
<p>What are signs?</p>
<p>Our observations</p>
<p>What are the basic functional categories of disease?</p>
<p>Inflammatory</p>
<p>Disorders of circulation</p>
<p>Disorders of cell growth</p>
<p>Degenerative</p>
<p>Developmental</p>
<p>Conditions that do not occur naturally</p>
