Health disease and the development of medicines

Question 1

Types of disease

Answer 1

Communicable - Transferred from one person to another

Non- communicable - Not transferred between people eg: diabetes cancer etc.

Question 2

Interactions between different types of disease

Answer 2

Defects in the immune system may mean that an individual is more likely to suffer from infectious diseases.

Viruses can be the trigger for cancers

Reaction of immune system to pathogens and other foreign bodies can trigger allergic reactions

Severe physical ill health can lead to depression and other types of mental illness

Question 3

Define pathogen

Answer 3

Organism that causes a disease