Communicable Diseases
Fighting Communicable Diseases
Noncommunicable Diseases
Disabilities
Treating Noncommunicable Diseases
100
Colds, influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and hepatitis.
What are common communicable diseases?
100
Avoid _________ to help prevent some communicable diseases.
What are high risk behaviors?
100
The most common type of cancer.
What is skin cancer?
100
A physical or mental impairment limiting normal activity.
What is a disability?
100
True or false: Practicing abstinence helps prevent some cancers.
True
200
Communicable disease can be _______ or _______.
What are bacterial and viral?
200
Practicing good hygiene, staying abstinent, and avoiding high risk behaviors.
What is preventing communicable diseases?
200
This occurs to someone suffering from asthma.
What is the tightening of the bronchial walls?
200
The two laws passed to benefit the disabled.
What are the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workforce Investment Act?
200
These are used to manage diabetes.
What are medications?
300
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease.
What is an epidemic?
300
Bodily system which fight pathogens through the use of inflammatory responses and specific defenses.
What is the immune system?
300
These can be caused by diabetes if left untreated.
What are blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease?
300
Below average intellectual ability present from birth/early childhood as well as difficulties in learning and social adaption.
What is mental retardation?
300
The drug taken in order to help reduce symptoms of allergies.
What are antihistamines?
400
The place where many communicable diseases occur.
What is the respiratory tract?
400
Drugs used to cure bacterial infections.
What are antibiotics?
400
These are the two types of arthritis.
What are rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis?
400
Complications from diabetes, macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataracts.
What are common causes of blindness?
400
A person with type 1 diabetes needs daily doses of _____
What is insulin?
500
An epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region.
What is pandemic?
500
The reaction to tissue damage caused by injury or infection.
What is an inflammatory response?
500
The gradual weakening of the heart.
What is congestive heart failure?
500
Hearing loss that cannot be benefited with a mechanical amplification.
What is profound deafness?
500
The 5 treatments for cancer.
What are surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and hormonal treatments?
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