COMMON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Nature, Prevention and

Control
DISEASE
• A departure from a positive state
or health or well-being
• An impairment of the normal
state of organisms that affect the
performance of vital functions
 HOST

AGENT ENVIRONMEN
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• OBLIGATE HOST
• Man may become an obligate host where the
microbiological agent has been established in
man and only in man for its survival
• PRINCIPAL HOST
• Man is chiefly responsible for the propagation
of the parasite.
• OCCASIONAL HOST
• Man is the secondary host, one organism is
the principal reservoir, man is unimportant
reservoir
DISEASE AGENT
• There are substances or elements, the presence
or absence of which, may imitate or perpetrate a
disease process.
BIOLOGICAL (Ebola, Botulism, Legionnaire’s disease)
CHEMICAL (Radiation, Vibration, Extreme temperature)
PHYSICAL (Heat stroke, Heat exhaustion, Frostbite)
NUTRITIONAL (Hypertension, Cancer, and Diabetes)
PSYCHOLOGICAL (Bipolar, ADHD, Depression)
ENVIRONMENT
• There are ecological factors which may
be favorable or unfavorable in the
development of diseases.
• Favorable ecological factors
• Unfavorable ecological factors
 ASSIGNMENT
• Research for the Six Essential Factors
in the Development of the Infection
Process.

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system