Class Test 1 - 7/8/12 TPC Analyse health issues in a global context.
Health is the quality of a person's physical, psychological and sociological functioning.
Disease is the abnormal state in which part or all of the body is not prperly adjusted, or is not capable of carrying on all its required functions. There is non infectious and infectious diseaes. Microorganisms can be helpful to human beings, but are the agents of many infectiuos diseases. WHO work to minimise the transmission of diseases such as HIV, HPV, viral hepatitis, pneumonia, bird flu, swine flu, influenza.
Pasteur's experiment with the curved necked vessels reputed the theory of spontaneous generation. Koch postulates showed how disease could be tranmitted from an infected source to an uninfected recepiant.
- Created by: Margaret McLauchlan
- Created on: 05-08-12 06:16
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2. Explain the difference between an epidemic and a endemic situaation..
- An epidemic relates to a disease attacking a large number of people at one time and endemic refers to any disease that is prevalent in a particular locality
- An epidemic relates to a worldwide infecftion endemic is local.
- An endemic stuation is one were the disease is attacking a large number of people in a locality
3. State two examples of non infectious genetic disease or condition.
- diabetes, chronic heart disease
- gastroenteritis, food poisoning
- chicken pox, mumps
4. Name one example of a disease caused by an infectious protozoa
- amoebic dysentery
- impetago
- cirriosis
5. WHO stands for
- World Health Organisation
- Wellbeing Health Organisation
- Widespread Healthiness organisation
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