Monday, December 20, 2010

WHY DO WE FALL ILL? PART - I

INTRODUCTION

1. Health and disease in human communities are complex issues with ---------------- causes.
2. Name the chemical substances out of which cells are made.
3. The living cell is not a dynamic place. True or False?
4. Even in the non-moving cells repair is going on. True or False?
5. All the activities of the human body's organs are interconnected. True or False?
6. Explain with suitable examples how the different organs of the body are interconnected and      interdependant.
7. Why is food needed?
8. What leads to the lack of proper activity in the body?

HEALTH AND ITS FAILURE

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF 'HEALTH'

9. What is health?

PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY ISSUES BOTH MATTER FOR HEALTH

10. On what factors does the health depend?
11. How does physical environment affect health?
12. How can cylone affect the health of a person?
13. How does social environment affect health?
14. How does garbage and open drain affect health?
15. What is public cleanliness and how does it influence health?
16. Why are good economic conditions and jobs needed for individual health?
17. Why are social equality and harmony necessary for individual health?
18. Why should we be happy?
19. Name the community issues that are connected to individual health.

DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN 'HEALTHY' AND 'DISEASE-FREE'

20. What is disease?
21. What is the distinction between 'poor health' and 'suffering from a particular disease'?
22. What does good health mean to a dancer?
23. What does good health mean to a musician?
24. Why is it important to realise the unique potential in all of us?
25. We can be in poor health without a real identifiable disease. True or False?
26. When we think about health we think about --------------- and ----------------.
27. When we think about disease we think about ----------------------.

DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES

WHAT DOES DISEASE LOOK LIKE?

28. How do we know that there is a disease in the body?
29. Tissues make up ------------------ or -------------------- that carry out body functions.
30. Each of the organ system has ----------------------- as its parts and it has -------------------.
31. What are the parts involved in the digestive system?
32. How does the digestive system help our body?
33. What are the parts involved in the musculoskeletal system?
34. How does the musculoskeletal system help our body?
35. What happens to the systems of the body when a disease occurs?
36. What do you mean by the 'symptoms' of disease?
37. Give examples of some symptoms.
38. Can a symptom diagnose the nature of a disease? Why?
39. Explain: Signs of a disease.
40. Why are laboratory tests done by physicians?

ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES

41. What are acute diseases? Give examples.
42. What are chronic diseases? Give examples.

CHRONIC DISEASES AND POOR HEALTH

43. Are the effects of acute health over the body serious? Why?
44. Chronic diseases have major effects on general health. True or False? Explain with examples.
45. What are the differences in the effects of acute and chronic diseases? Explain with suitable examples.
46. We are likely to have -------------- general poor health if we have a chronic disease.
47. Chronic diseases have ---------------- effects over health.
48. Acute diseases do not have ----------------- effects over health.

CAUSES OF DISEASES

49. What are the causes of a baby's loose motion?
50. Why does one baby develop loose motion when the other babies have not?
51. What types of babies are more liable to diseases?
52. What is the first level cause of disease?
53. What is the second level cause of disease?
54. How does the household / surrounding affect health?
55. How do poor nourishment and genetic difference become contributory causes of disease?
56. What are the third level causes of disease?
57. Most diseases have many causes rather than one single cause. True or False?

INFECTIOUS AND NON-INFECTIOUS CAUSES

58. Name the infectious agents that cause diseases.
59. What are infectious diseases?
60. How does the infectious agents cause diseases?
61. What are non-infectious diseases?
62. Infectious diseases occur due to external / internal causes. Choose the correct answer.
63. Non-infectious diseases occur due to external / internal causes. Choose the correct answer.
64. Some cancers are caused by genetic abnormalities. True or False?
65. What are the causes of high blood pressure?

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