Communicable and Chronic Diseases
A Microorganism that can cause diseases
What is Pathogen?
A condition that causes abnormal growth of skin cells.
What is skin cancer
A strategy used to look for as-yet-unrecognized conditions or risk markers
What is Health Screening
When there is a health issue around, it is the job of the media to do this.
What is to raise awareness
A condition in which the nervous system is relatively inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended.
What is Sleep
A disease that can easily be spread through use of Pathogens
What is Communicable Disease
This machine used for tanning can cause Skin Cancer with UV rays when it's user spends too much time inside of it.
What is Tanning Bed
These types of screenings are one of the most important when it comes to heart health.
What is Blood Pressure Screening
When Misconceptions about health arise it is the job of the media to do this.
What is Combat Misinformation
The Recommended amount of sleep that a teenager should receive every night.
What is 8-10 hours
A long term Illness that effects a person for 3 months or longer
What is Chronic Illness
a lotion, spray, gel, foam, stick or other topical product that absorbs or reflects some of the sun's ultraviolet radiation and thus helps protect against Sunburn and skin cancer.
What is Sun Screen
This type of screening can help measure your body mass index (BMI). These measurements will tell you whether or not you're at a healthy weight.
What is Body weight screenings
When a crisis is going it is the job of the media to provide this to other people to share information of these crises.
What is Crisis communication
A common sleep disorder that can make it hard to fall asleep, hard to stay asleep, or cause one to wake up too early and not be able to get back to sleep.
What is Insomnia
A contagious infection caused by bacteria that mainly affects the lungs but also can affect any other organ.
Symptoms include coughing, Bloody sputum mucus, and rapid weight loss.
What is Tuberculosis
The most serious type of skin cancer, develops in the cells that produce melanin — the pigment that gives skin its color. It can also form in a person's eyes and, rarely, in internal organs, such as one's intestines.
What is Melanoma
This method of screening is carried out by pricking the tip of the finger for taking a drop of blood, which is then analyzed by specialized blood screening instruments.
Finger Stick Blood Screening
It is the job of the media to educate others about concerns regarding Health concerns. This can also be seen as...
What is Answer common questions
Persistent neurological disease that includes a diminished capacity to control sleep wake cycles.
Symptoms include Lack of concentration, Sleep paralysis, and hallucinations.
What is Narcolepsy
A neurological disorder that causes seizures or unusual sensations and behaviors.
Symptoms include: Temporary confusion, Episodes of blank stares, and jerking of arms and legs.
What is Epilepsy
It tends to grow more rapidly in thickness than in diameter compared to other Skin cancer subtypes. Instead of arising from a pre-existing mole, it may appear in a spot where a lesion did not previously exist.
What is Nodular Melanoma
A screening test given to examine the electrical activity of the heart.
What is an Electrocardiogram
People post about everything online, including their health. Public health organizations can even get a sense of the severity of symptoms. This leads to...
What is Public Health Monitoring
An uncommon sleep disorder that causes you to be excessively sleepy during the day even after a good or prolonged night's sleep. It also often causes difficulty waking up after you've been asleep at night or for a nap. Naps generally aren't refreshing.
What is Idiopathic Hypersomnia