Causes of Human Disease
What are disease-causing microbes.
pathogens
What diseases are caused by pathogens?
communicable
What is it called when basic needs for food, water, health care, and education are not met?
poverty
What can you spread when you handle food without washing your hands or wearing gloves?
Staph bacteria
What is it called when a large proportion of the population over a large geographic area spread disease?
Pandemic
What increases people's ability to fight off a disease?
vaccinations
What are 2 factors that account for the spread of communicable disease?
population growth, overcrowding, migration, lifestyle, travel, food, sexual pracitices.
What are single celled organisms?
bacteria
What diseases cannot be passed from one organism to another?
Non-communicable
What are 3 reasons that poverty can cause the spread of disease?
improper diet, contaminated water, lack of sanitation/personal hygiene
What can help with preventing food poisoning ?
preservation of food
What is it called when contagious diseases are not so widespread?
epidemic
What officials often help with the development of new vaccinations that respond to new outbreaks of disease?
Public Health
This is a pandemic disease today
COVID, AIDS
What are the conditions that bacteria needs to grow?
temperature, moisture, and food
What is a form of food poisoning caused by bacteria?
botulism or salmoellosis
What type of disease kills most people in poor countries?
communicable diseases
What are 3 methods of food preservation?
smoking/drying, canning, salting, freezing, chemical additives, vacuum packaging, irradiation, pasteurization
What did doctors put in their masks when they treated people with the plague in the 1500s?
spices
What are 2 concerns that public halth programs have addressed?
removal of garbage, treatment of human and animal waste, air quality, vaccinations, and food safety.
What is a lung disease that killed many Aboriginal people in NA?
tuberculosis
What are made of trillions of cells?
viruses
What are 3 examples of the reason people get non-communicable diseases?
environmental, poor diets, unhealthy lifestyles, genetics.
What type of disease kills more people in rich countries
non-communicable
Why is there a glass dome over the salad bar at a restaurant?
sneeze guard
What is it called when people want to create or are interested in working together to develop healthy communities?
public health
What are 2 training programs that teens can take to protect community health?
first aid, swimming, lifesaving, and babysitting
What is a bacterial disease found in the blood of infected rats that is spread by fleas to humans?
bubonic plague
What single-celled organism that shares some characteristics with animals and plants
protists
What are 4 ways in which communicable diseases can be transmitted?
airborne, water-borne, food-borne, direct contact
What did people on the Canadian Prairies die from in the 1930s?
starvation and lung disease
What is a method of keeping hospital rooms and equipment free of pathogens?
aseptic practices
What is the impact of pandemic diseases on society?
billions die, quarantine, hospitalizations, economic issues, crime rates, inflation...
What is the role of public health?
delivery of programs and services.
What alerts the pubic to health concerns?
advisory