immune system

This immunity responds to actual (a cold) or artificial exposure (vaccinations)

• Active Immunity

• Passive Immunity

Your skin, WBC's, mucous membranes, phagocytes, inflammatory response, temperature, and pH are all part of this defense system

• Specific-defense system

• Non-specific defense

• Active immunity

• Passive Immunity

This type of immunity is acquired from an outside source such as a human (examples: breast milk, placenta, antibodies from a transfusion)

• Active Immunity

• Passive Immunity

• Nonspecific defense

• Specific defense

The agents that cause disease fall into 5 groups: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and worms.

• True

• False

Air, water, housing and radiation are all components of the _______ environment that contribute to a person's overall health.

• physical

• biological

• psychosocial

• pathogens

Cultural values, lifestyle, attitudes, morals, and political organizations are all components of the _______ environment that contribute to a person's overall health.

• physical

• biological

• psychosocial

Man, viruses, microbial agents, insects, rodents are all components of the _______ environment that contribute to a person's overall health.

• physical

• biological

• psychosocial

Antibiotics cure viral infections.

• True

• False

Vaccines can be created from a weakened form of a pathogen, part of a pathogen, or synthetically made.

• True

• False

Race, gender, and genes can affect overall health.

• True

• False