Chapter-15

Why Do We Fall
Ill

Health

What is health?

A state of
being well

A state of being
well enough to
function well
1. Physically
2. Mentally
3. Socially

Being Healthy Is
Different For Different
persons.

SIGNIFICANCE OF GOOD HEALTH

Increase in Efficiency Of Work

Progress As Whole
Happy And Cheerful
Initiative For Betterment
Family
Meaningful Existence

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Social Environment
Cleanliness (Personal Hygiene and Public
Cleanliness)
Good Food
Good economic conditions
Social Equality and harmony (an example
of how community issues effect individual
health)
To have the opportunity to realise the
unique potential in all of us

Good Health Includes

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Reasons of Falling Ill


Conditions essential for being free of a disease
There should be no discomfort to the individual.
There should be no specific and particular cause
for a discomfort

Difference between being healthy and disease free

Healthy

Disease Free

Defnition
Dependence
Health And Disease Relation
Performance

DISEASE AND ITs

CAUSES

Health Statistics and Informatics

CAUSES OF DISEASES
There are many causes and types of

diseases such as
(1) Infectious disease
(2) Physical diseases
(3) Water or food born
(4) Sexually transmited
(5) Mental diseases and alzheimers disease
(6) Manic depressive illness
(7) Defciency disease
(8) Degenerative diseases
(9) Caused By pathogens

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Infectious disease are those caused by infections like

by spreading from one to another by pathogens
They are also called communicable disease

Example:
common cold , swine flu, Measles etc.

PHYSICAL DISEASES

It is the inner body parts

disease such as bone ,
lungs, etc

Example

WATER OR FOOD BORN

They Are Disease Caused

By ConteminatedWater or
Food

Example
Cholera- Salmonella cholerae
Typhoid

SEXUALLY TRANSMITED

Examples
Gonorrhoea
HIV
Syphilis - Treponema pallidum

Can I get it from toilet seats or

towels
You cannot it get it from toilet
seats or swimming pools or by
sharing cups and towels.

Mental diseases And

Alzheimers disease
A disease that affects a
persons mind
Thoughts, emotions,
memory and personal
and social behaviour
Example of a mild
condition is
claustrophobia
Alzheimers disease--Right

MANIC DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS

In manic depressive illness,

sufferers experience mood
swings that are far beyond what
most people ever experience in
the course of their lives. These
mood swings may be low, as in
depression, or high, as in periods
when we might feel very elated.
These high periods are known as

Deficiency disease

Scurvy vitamin C
Night blindness vitamin A
Rickets vitamin D
Iron defciency - anaemia

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Degenerative diseases
A gradual loss of function in one or several organs
or tissues can occur (associated with a progressive
destruction of specialised cells) in youth or middle age
Reasons for this loss of function:
- Immune system attack its own cells
- Defciency in childhood which leads degeneration later in life.
Types of Degenerative diseases
Skeletal muscle and nervous system

Examples:

muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone and

Alzheimers

Cardiovascular Examples: coronary heart

CAUSED BY PATHOGENS

Examples:

Chicken Guinea
Malaria
Dengue

Global Statistics
40% of the world's population is at risk
300-500 million new cases/year
1.5-2.7 million deaths/year
Malaria is endemic to over 100 countries and territories
More than 90% of all cases are in sub-Saharan Africa

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