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Health and Disease

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  1. What is health?

    A state of physical and mental wellbeing, not only the absence of disease.

  2. What is a disease?

    A condition that stops part of the body or mind from working properly.

  3. What causes a communicable disease?

    A pathogen: a virus, bacterium, protist or fungus.

  4. Can a non-communicable disease be passed from person to person?

    No.

  5. Give two examples of communicable diseases.

    Any two of flu, tuberculosis, malaria, athlete's foot, HIV.

  6. What causes an inherited disorder?

    A faulty allele passed from parent to child.

  7. Name an inherited disorder.

    Cystic fibrosis (or Huntington's disease).

  8. What causes a deficiency disease?

    A lack of a nutrient in the diet.

  9. Which vitamin deficiency causes scurvy?

    Vitamin C.

  10. Is depression communicable?

    No, it is a mental illness and is not caused by a pathogen.

  11. Is cancer an infectious disease?

    No. Most cancers are not caused by pathogens and cannot be caught.

  12. What does HIV do to the immune system?

    It infects and damages the white blood cells, so that the immune system is weakened.

  13. Why is a person with HIV more likely to get tuberculosis?

    The weakened immune system cannot control the TB bacteria.

  14. How can HPV lead to cervical cancer?

    It changes the cells of the cervix so that they divide in an uncontrolled way.

  15. Name two things that could cause an immune deficiency.

    HIV, an inherited fault, immunosuppressant drugs or a poor diet.

  16. How can mental health affect physical health?

    Stress can weaken the immune system, and poor mental health can lead to neglect of the body.

  17. How is a percentage of a total worked out?

    Divide the part by the total and multiply by 100.

  18. A tree diagram splitting disease into communicable and non-communicable diseases. Sort these diseases into communicable and non-communicable: flu, scurvy, malaria, depression.

    Flu and malaria are communicable, as they are caused by pathogens (a virus and a protist). Scurvy (a deficiency disease) and depression (a mental illness) are non-communicable.

  19. Two flow charts of HIV leading to tuberculosis and HPV leading to cervical cancer. Explain how each virus in the diagram can lead to a second disease.

    HIV infects white blood cells and damages the immune system, so TB bacteria are not controlled and tuberculosis becomes active. HPV changes the DNA of cervical cells, so they divide in an uncontrolled way and a tumour can grow.