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Human Health And Disease
Health
Health may be defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. When people are
healthy, they are more efficient at work.
Health is affected by Genetic disorders ~ Infections and Lifestyle including food and water, inheritable
defects of parents to offspring, we take rest and exercise we give to our bodies, habits that we want etc.
Diseases can be broadly grouped into infectious and non-infectious.
Diseases which are easily transmitted from one person to another, are called infectious diseases.
Among non-infectious diseases, cancer is the major cause of death.
Typhoid:
* Bacterium: Salmonella typhi
+ Warnings: Stomach pain, constipation, high fever, weakness, headache and loss of appetite, intestinal
perforation and death may occur in severe cases. Typhoid fever could be confirmed by a Widal test.
+ Mode of transmission: These swarm spread through contaminated food and water and migrate to
other organs through blood
Pneumoni:
+ Bacterium: Streptococcus pneumonia and Haemophilus influenza.
+ Warnings: the alveoli get filled with fluid leading to severe problems in respiration, in severe cases, the
lips and fingernails may turn gray to bluish in color. Symptoms include fever, chills, cough, and headache.
+ Mode of transmission: transmitted through droplets of infected persons.
Common Cold:
+ Bacterium: Rhinoviruses.
+ Warnings: a Sore throat, hoarseness, nasal congestion and discharge, cough, headache, tiredness.
+ Mode of transmission: through droplets of infected persons.
Types of Diseases
The diseases may be classified into two types: Congenital and Acquired.
4 Congenital Diseases: These Diseases are basically physiological abnormalities present from birth.
They may be caused by
(i) a single gene mutation
(ii) chromosomal aberrations
(ii) environmental factors. Unlike the gene-and chromosome-induced congenital defects, environmentally
caused abnormalities are not transmitted to the children
2 Acquired Diseases: These diseases develop after birth.
They are further of two types: Communicable and Non-communicable.
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