Chronic Diseases
What is a chronic disease?
A disease that lasts for a long time, usually 3 months or more.
What is the negative definition of health?
The absence of physical illness, disease and mental distress.
What does PIES stand for?
Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Social.
What is growth?
The process of increasing in size, such as height and weight.
Which chronic disease causes bones to become weak and more likely to fracture?
Osteoporosis
The absence of physical illness, disease and mental distress.
Physical, emotional and social.
Which type of development involves learning, memory and problem-solving?
Intellectual development
What is development?
The process of growing to maturity and gaining skills and abilities.
Which chronic disease affects the airways, causing breathing difficulties?
Asthma
Which aspect of health involves forming friendships and relationships?
Social health
An infant learns to crawl and walk. Which type of development is this?
Physical development
What age range is adolescence?
11–18 years
Which chronic disease involves fatty deposits building up in the coronary arteries?
Coronary heart disease (CHD)
Give one example of good emotional health.
Feeling happy, being able to cope with emotions or having positive self-esteem.
A child learns to control their anger and express their feelings. Which type of development is this?
Emotional development
Name the six life stages in the correct order.
Infancy, childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood and later adulthood.
Name the five chronic diseases we have studied.
Type II diabetes, osteoporosis, CHD, dementia and asthma
Name the four main groups of factors affecting health and well-being.
Physical, behavioural, environmental and socio-economic.
An adolescent becomes more influenced by their friends and begins forming closer friendships. Which type of development is this?
Social development
Give the correct age ranges for early adulthood, middle adulthood and later adulthood.
Early: 19–39; Middle: 40–64; Later: 65+ years.