Health, disease and cancer

Health and disease

Health is the state of physical and mental wellbeing. Diseases are often responsible for causing ill health.

Disease can be communicable or non-communicable:

• Communicable disease are those that can spread from one person to another or between animals and people.
• Non-communicable disease are those that cannot be spraed between people or between an animal and a person.

Risks for non-communicable disease:

• Smoking has been proven to directly cause cardiovascular disease, lung disease and lung cancer. It damage the walls of…