Disease
Name a communicable disease.
Chicken Pox
Measles
Cold
Flu
What are the three risk factors for noncommunicable diseases?
Heredity
Environment
Lifestyle
Recurrence of a disease, in which signs and symptoms return after a period of remission
Relapse
Medication that you can pick up at the store.
Over the counter medication
True or False. Physical health is not essential for our overall well-being.
False
What is a disease that can be spread from one person to another person.
Communicable
Prediction of how likely a person is to recover from the disease
Prognosis
A new condition or second disease that arises in a person who already has one disease
Complication
Name two ways to prevent communicable diseases?
Washing Hands
Respiratory Etiquette
Food Sanitation
Vaccines
True or False. Maintaining Physical Health can help us fight diseases.
True
Heredity is a risk factor for?
A time without signs and symptoms associated with that disease
Remission
Viral or bacterial infection of the eye, also known as pink eye
Conjunctivitis
True or False. Washing your hands is not an effective way to prevent diseases.
False
True or False. Exercise is a great tool to maintain healthy lifestyle.
Cause communicable disease
Pathogen
Invades a person’s cells and multiplies to create an illness
Viruses
Name an example of a noncommunicable disease.
Heart Disease
Cancer
Diabetes
Stroke
Name two ways to prevent noncommunicable disease.
Avoid unnecessary sun exposure
Avoid alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
Maintain physical activity and exercise
Regular screenings and testing with doctors
Eating healthy
Name one contributing factor physical health.
Nutrition
Physical Activity
Behavior
Mass of abnormal cells
Tumor
Single-celled organisms that live in almost every place where life can thrive
Bacteria
Name 3 ways you can transmit a communicable disease.
Direct contact
Indirect contact
Animal or insect
Airborne
Food or water contaminated
Droplets
substances that target and kill pathogenic, or harmful bacteria.
Antibiotics
Substance that contains a dead or nontoxic part of the pathogen that is injected into a person to train the immune system.
Vaccine