Healthy Habits
How can we prevent illness?
By adopting healthy habits and behaviors that reduce the risk of contracting certain diseases
What do infectious agents produce?
Infectious diseases
What system do cardiovascular diseases affect?
The circulatory system
What is diagnosis?
Identification of a disease and its causes
What is illness?
Any situation where our health is affected negatively for a time.
Eliminates microorganisms, viruses, and toxic substances
What is one example of a non-contagious infectious disease?
Salmonellosis, infected wounds, tetanus
What type of non-infectious disease is malnutrition?
Nutritional diseases
What are medicines?
What are the two types of factors that health depends on?
Environmental and personal factors
What does sociability improve?
self-confidence
What is one example of a contagious infectious disease?
Colds, flu, chickenpox
What type of non-infectious disease is a fracture?
Trauma
What are three examples of medicines?
Vaccinations, antibiotics, painkillers
Name two examples of personal factors.
Nutrition, age, lifestyle, hygiene
What does self-confidence prevent?
depression, anxiety, and sleepless nights
How can infectious agents enter the body?
Through the air we breathe, through cuts or grazes, in our food and water
Emotional state
What are three examples of diagnoses?
Analysis of blood, tissue, or urine; x-rays; ultrasound scans
What are the three aspects of good health?
Physical, social, and emotional wellbeing
Which habit helps prevent disease?
a) Sitting hunched over
b) Washing food we are going to eat
c) Only eating carbohydrates
b) washing food we are going to eat
Name three examples of infectious agents.
Bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses
What type of non-infectious disease usually causes hives (urticaria)?
Allergies
What type of medicine do we receive in our arm to prevent covid-19?
Vaccination
Name three types of symptoms that we can experience when we are ill.
Temperature, a cough, tiredness, a rash, pain, dizziness