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