What is Disease?
What word means any sickness or illness that stops your body from working the way it should?
Disease
How many seconds you should wash your hands with soap and water—about the time it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" twice.
20 Seconds
Disease category where a sickness can spread from person to person.
Communicable disease
Small neighborhood shops often carry quick snacks like chips and candy, but they usually lack these healthy items.
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
What are things that show you are sick, such as a fever, cough, or runny nose?
Symptoms
Doing this into your elbow instead of your hands keeps germs from flying into the air.
Sneezing or coughing
Illnesses like asthma or diabetes that you cannot catch from anyone else.
Non-Communicable disease
The place you go when you have a severe medical emergency, like a broken bone or sudden severe injury.
Emergency Room or Hospital
What are tiny living things like bacteria and viruses that can make you sick?
Germs
Daily habits like taking a shower, brushing your teeth, and washing your hands to stay clean.
Personal hygiene
The flu, chickenpox, and the common cold belong to this group of diseases because they spread easily.
Communicable disease
A plan that families buy to help pay for doctor visits and medicine so they don't have to pay the full price out of pocket.
Health Insurance
What are the two categories of disease?
Communicable and Non-Communicable
True or false: Sharing these items—like water bottles, lip balm, or hairbrushes—can easily pass germs to your friends.
True
Eating healthy foods, exercising, and getting enough sleep can help prevent these kinds of long-term diseases.
Non-Communicable disease
How can where you live impact your health?
Answers vary
True or False: The Immune System helps fight disease.
True
A shot given by a doctor that teaches your body how to fight off a specific disease before you catch it.
Vaccine
Unlike asthma, diseases that spread from person to person are caused by these.
Germs
What are some things a community can do to prevent disease?
Social distance, wear masks, wash hands, get shots, doctors close by, etc.