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Healthy and illness (Illnesses (Types of illnesses (Infectious (Infectious…
Healthy and illness
Illnesses
Types of illnesses
Infectious
Infectious illnesses are caused by pathogens that enter your body. These illnesses can be contagious.
Non-Infectious
Non-infectous illnesses are not caused by a pathogen; they develop as a result of other causes, such as aging or an accident.
Trasnmissions
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Indirect
The pathogen uses diferents vehicles (water, food and animals) to spread the illness. These vehicles are called vectors.
An Illness is a physical or mental symptom that causes your body to not work properly.
Extra help
Vaccines, Serums and Medicines are the ones that help us fight the pathogens when we need an extra help.
Vaccines, Serums and Medicines
Vaccines are dead or part of a pathogen for cheating the immune system to start working for the next time the same pathogen attacks. If it is the case that the pathogen attacks, the immune system knows how to defen inself
Serums are basically our on antibodies, that can't fight an actual illness, are purified in a laboratory for them to have the oportunity to fight back.
Medicines are compound that contain active ingredients, that cure or realive the symptoms of an illness.
Health
The health is define as a state of physical, mental and social well-being, according to WHO (World's health organization).
Health determinants
Biological determinants
This depens in the individual personal human's characteristics related to physological make-up, like increasing age (-) or have teeth resintance to decay (+).
Lifestyle
A healthy lifestyle depens of a certain factors like basic standartsfor hygene, doing physical activity, sleeping enought hours...
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