Understanding Diseases

True or False: All diseases can be passed from one person to another.

• False

• Bacterial diseases cannot spread between people

• Only viral diseases can be transmitted

• All diseases are contagious

What do you call a condition that disturbs normal body function?

• treatment

• symptom

• disease

• infection

What do you think causes most diseases—germs, lifestyle, or the environment?

• A combination of germs, lifestyle, and the environment.

• The environment is the sole cause of diseases.

• Only germs cause diseases.

• Lifestyle has no impact on diseases.

True or False: Non-communicable diseases can be transmitted between people.

• True

• Non-communicable diseases are contagious

• False

• Non-communicable diseases can be spread through air

What is the term for the number of deaths in a population?

• Mortality

• Fertility

• Population Density

• Morbidity

What do we call the presence of a disease in a population?

• Mortality

• Incidence

• Epidemiology

• Prevalence

True or False: Communicable diseases are always caused by bacteria.

• False

• All communicable diseases are bacterial infections.

• Communicable diseases are only caused by viruses.

• True

Name one example of a non-communicable disease.

• Diabetes

• Flu

• HIV/AIDS

• Tuberculosis

What is the primary way communicable diseases spread?

• Through airborne particles from sneezing or coughing.

• Direct or indirect contact with infected individuals or surfaces.

• Via insect bites or animal transmission.

• By consuming contaminated food or water.

True or False: Lifestyle choices can influence the risk of non-communicable diseases.

• True

• Only genetics influence non-communicable diseases

• False

• Lifestyle choices have no impact on health