Medical Care for Disease Prevention

What does disease prevention mean?

• A) Treating disease after it happens

• B) Stopping disease before it happens

• C) Ignoring disease

• D) Only taking medicine

Which of the following is a method of disease prevention?

• A) Surgery

• B) Immunisation

• C) Painkillers

• D) X-ray

What is immunisation?

• A) A blood test

• B) An injection that protects from disease

• C) A scan

• D) A treatment after sickness

How do vaccines help the body?

• A) They cure diseases

• B) They create antibodies

• C) They remove blood

• D) They stop breathing

What are antibodies?

• A) Medicines

• B) Proteins that fight disease

• C) Viruses

• D) Vaccines

Why are vaccines important?

• A) They are painful

• B) They save lives

• C) They cause illness

• D) They are expensive

Who usually gets screening tests?

• A) Only sick people

• B) Only children

• C) Healthy people

• D) Doctors

Which is better?

• A) Prevention

• B) Cure

• C) Both, but prevention is better

• D) None

What is the main difference between immunisation and screening?

• A) They are the same

• B) Immunisation prevents, screening detects

• C) Screening prevents, immunisation detects

• D) Both cure disease