Section 1 Flashcards

(16 cards)

1
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Inflammation symptoms

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Swelling
redness
heat
Pain

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Non communicable diseases NCD

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  1. Diseases, disorders, disabilities
  2. Not infectious
  3. Cannot be transmitted
  4. F.e stroke cancer
  5. Some NCD have infectious components like cervical cancer HPV
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3
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Pathogens

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Infectious agents 
-parasites 
-protist 
-bacteria 
-fungi
-viruses 
-prions 
Causing infectious diseases.
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4
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EID

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Emerging infectious diseases

  1. Caused by new pathogen unknown previously
  2. Infectious diseases that have spread outside the original region.
  3. Previously declined and that have resurged
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5
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Potential pathways for emerging of new diseases

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Change in the land use
Food and agriculture system
Human behaviour

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Cholera

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  • Vibro cholerae bacteria naturally preset in water
  • Diarrhoeal disease
  • Watery pale diarrhoea
  • results in rapid dehydration and loss of essential salts
  • death follows if water and salts aren’t replaced
  • Robert Koch
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7
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Cause of infectious diseases

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Insanity
Human biology - age, wrong nourishment, meds, illness
Inadequate hygiene in hospitals
Human behaviours

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Acute condition

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  • Develop rapidly
  • reach peak within days or weeks
  • either recovers quickly or die
  • some are mild resolved within days and no treatment needed
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Chronic conditions

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  • Develops slowly
  • takes moths to reach peak
  • might cope well but never fully recover the Health they had
  • if untreated loss of life or permanent disability
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Symptoms

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Sensation of the illness in the body
Only the ill person feels
Pain nausea

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Signs of illness

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Indication of illness people can observe

Runny nose, high temperature

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12
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Diagnosis

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Identification of underlying cause of illness based on symptoms and signs

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13
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DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic acid
Carries genetic info
Governs function of cell

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14
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Bacteria

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Single cell organism
10 times smaller than animal cell
No nucleus

Good or bad bacterias. Good- commensal bacteria- protect from ID
Multiply rapidly
Earth most ancient organism

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Indirect person to person transmission

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  1. Airborne infection
  2. Waterborne
  3. Feacle oral infection
  4. Food borne
  5. Fomites
  6. Blood-borne
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16
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Immune system

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Network of specialised
Cells
Protein
Other substances that act together to destroy pathogens that entered the body