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    Health and Disease

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    Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, while disease is an unhealthy condition caused by microorganisms, improper diet, or genetics that results in improper organ functioning and symptoms like headaches or coughs. Diseases are categorized based on factors like prevalence, duration, and cause. Infectious diseases spread between people through air, food, or water and are caused by microbes like bacteria, viruses, fungi or protozoa, while non-infectious diseases are caused by genetic abnormalities and do not spread. Chronic diseases last a long time and have drastic health effects compared to acute diseases. Diseases also have immediate causes like microbes or contributory causes like genetics or nutrition that contribute

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    Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, while disease is an unhealthy condition caused by microorganisms, improper diet, or genetics that results in improper organ functioning and symptoms like headaches or coughs. Diseases are categorized based on factors like prevalence, duration, and cause. Infectious diseases spread between people through air, food, or water and are caused by microbes like bacteria, viruses, fungi or protozoa, while non-infectious diseases are caused by genetic abnormalities and do not spread. Chronic diseases last a long time and have drastic health effects compared to acute diseases. Diseases also have immediate causes like microbes or contributory causes like genetics or nutrition that contribute

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    Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, while disease is an unhealthy condition caused by microorganisms, improper diet, or genetics that results in improper organ functioning and symptoms like headaches or coughs. Diseases are categorized based on factors like prevalence, duration, and cause. Infectious diseases spread between people through air, food, or water and are caused by microbes like bacteria, viruses, fungi or protozoa, while non-infectious diseases are caused by genetic abnormalities and do not spread. Chronic diseases last a long time and have drastic health effects compared to acute diseases. Diseases also have immediate causes like microbes or contributory causes like genetics or nutrition that contribute

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    Health and Disease

    Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being of an individual. Health is often affected
    by diseases. Disease is the unhealthy condition caused by microorganisms, improper diet or it is
    inherited. Disease literally means being uncomfortable. A person affected by the disease will have
    improper functioning of the organ systems. Different symptoms which could be established during the
    diseased condition include headache, cough, loose motion and wounds with pus.
    Classification of diseases
    Diseases are categorised based on prevalence, occurrence or spread and duration.
    Epidemics are the diseases based on prevalence that attack many people at the same time. E.g. plague.
    Infectious diseases are the diseases based on occurrence or spread and duration. These are the
    diseases caused by micro-organisms like bacteria, virus, fungi and protozoa. These are spread from one
    person to another through air, food, water etc.
    Non-infectious diseases are the diseases based on occurrence or spread. These are the diseases
    caused by genetic abnormalities. They are called non-communicable diseases as they do not spread from
    one person to another. E.g. cancer.
    Acute diseases are the diseases based on duration. These diseases last for a short time without posing
    adverse effects on the health. E.g. common cold.
    Chronic diseases are the diseases based on duration. Chronic diseases last for prolonged period with
    drastic effects on health. E.g. Diabetes.
    Diseases can also be categorised based on level of causes. These can be immediate or contributory cause.
    Immediate cause of the disease can be the microbes causing the disease. E.g. Bacteria.
    Contributory causes include causes which contribute to immediate cause. E.g. Genetic difference or poor
    nourishment.
    Infectious agents
    Organisms which cause disease are called as infectious agents. They obtain nourishment from the host.
    E.g. Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, Protozoa, Helminthes.
    Bacteria cause diseases like typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis, anthrax, pimples and peptic ulcers.
    Viruses cause the common cold, influenza, dengue fever, SARS and AIDS.
    Fungi cause skin infections.
    Protozoa causes malaria, kala azar and sleeping sickness.
    Helminthes worms cause intestinal infections or elephantiasis.
    Target organs
    these are the different parts of the body attacked by infectious agents. Mode of entry of microbes specifies
    the site of localization. Symptoms tell us about the target organ infected.
    If the symptoms are cough and breathlessness, then the lungs are the target.
    Jaundice is a symptom of the liver, which is a target organ.
    If the symptoms are headache, vomiting, fits or unconsciousness, then the brain is the target.
    AIDS
    AIDS is a viral disease caused by a virus named Human Immuno Deficiency Virus or HIV. HIV attacks the
    immune system of an individual and hence he cannot fight back many diseases. HIV finally causes death.

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