Section 1 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Inflammation symptoms
Swelling
redness
heat
Pain
Non communicable diseases NCD
- Diseases, disorders, disabilities
- Not infectious
- Cannot be transmitted
- F.e stroke cancer
- Some NCD have infectious components like cervical cancer HPV
Pathogens
Infectious agents -parasites -protist -bacteria -fungi -viruses -prions Causing infectious diseases.
EID
Emerging infectious diseases
- Caused by new pathogen unknown previously
- Infectious diseases that have spread outside the original region.
- Previously declined and that have resurged
Potential pathways for emerging of new diseases
Change in the land use
Food and agriculture system
Human behaviour
Cholera
- 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
Cause of infectious diseases
Insanity
Human biology - age, wrong nourishment, meds, illness
Inadequate hygiene in hospitals
Human behaviours
Acute condition
- Develop rapidly
- reach peak within days or weeks
- either recovers quickly or die
- some are mild resolved within days and no treatment needed
Chronic conditions
- 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
Symptoms
Sensation of the illness in the body
Only the ill person feels
Pain nausea
Signs of illness
Indication of illness people can observe
Runny nose, high temperature
Diagnosis
Identification of underlying cause of illness based on symptoms and signs
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Carries genetic info
Governs function of cell
Bacteria
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
Indirect person to person transmission
- Airborne infection
- Waterborne
- Feacle oral infection
- Food borne
- Fomites
- Blood-borne
Immune system
Network of specialised
Cells
Protein
Other substances that act together to destroy pathogens that entered the body