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Health and illnesses (Types of illnesses (Non-infectious (Are not caused…

- - - - The set of habits that reflects an individual or group's way of life.
    - - An individual personal characteristics related to the physiological make-up of human body.
    - - Measures for a population ia a positive health determinant.
    - - Are the features of our environment
- - - - Aging
      - accidents
      - Congenital conditions
      - lifestyle habits
  - - - Viruses
      - Bacteria
      - Protozoa
      - fungi
      - Tapeworms
- - - - When a serum is administered to a person, antibodies that help to fight off a particular pathogen are introduced into the body.
    - - Are compounds that contain substances called active ingredients, which cure an illness or relieve the symptoms it produces.
        
        Antibiotics
        
        Destroy bacteria or prevent them from reproducing, without destroying the body's cells. They are very effective against bacterial infections.
        
        Antivirals
        
        Kill viruses without damaging the virus-infected cells.
        
        Analgesics
        
        Also called painkillers, have no curative effect but are used to alleviate or eliminate pain.
- - - - Occurs when the recipient's immune system recognises the transplant as a foreign body an attacks it.
- - - - Living individuals can donate tissues, such as blood or any organ they can live without, such as a kidney.
    - - We say a person is brain dead if they have died but their heartbeat is maintained atificially, the organs that are going to be transplanted are in good condition.