This document discusses health, illness, and infectious diseases. It defines health as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being, while illness is defined as health problems that affect the body's organs. Infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms, while non-infectious diseases include allergies, obesity, malnutrition, and mental illness. The document outlines common types of infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, protozoans, and fungi, and how they are transmitted between people through contact, droplets, contaminated objects, animals, food, and water. Preventing infectious diseases involves maintaining a healthy lifestyle and vaccination schedule.

1. Health and illness
By: Carmen Vispo Welzenbach

2. Health and illness
• Your health is a state of physical, mental and
social well-being. Illness are health problems
that affect your bodys organs.
Health professionals and services can help us to
stay healthy.

3. A general
practitioner is a
doctor who treats
the most common ,
everyday illness.
A medical specialist
who trats specific
illness.
People usually go to
hospital if they
have a medical
emergency. They
can also go there
for tests and
medical treatments

4. Types of illness
Infectous diseases
• Are illness caused by
microorganisms.
Non- infectous diseases
• Include allergies, abesity,
malnutrition, substances
ore mental illness.

5. INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Bacteria can cause
deseases like tuberculosis,
tetanus ore salmonellosis.
We cantreat some bacterial
infections with medicines
called antibiotics.
Many viruses are harmfull.
They cause diseases like flu,
measkes, rubella and AIDS.
Antiviral medicines.
Some protozoans malaria,
cholera and amoebic
Anti-protist medicines.
Some fungi cause diseases
of the skin, hair and nails.

6. HOW ARE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES TRANSMITTED
a) By personal contact
b) By droplet contact. When people sneeze or cough
c) By contact with contaminated objects. Tetanus
d) By animal caries
e) By comsumtion of contaminated food. Sallmonella
f) By consumtion of contaminated water

7. Preventing infectous diseases
• To prevent infectous diseases we must keep
healthy lifestyle habits and follow a schedule
of vaccinations.

8. Healthy lifestyle habits
• Wash your hands
• Brush your teeth
• Clean cuts
• Keep your pets healthy
• Wash raw fruits and vegetables
• Don´t walk barefoot

9. Vaccine
A vaccine is a substance that contains weak or
dead microorganisms. This microorganisms
can´t make you ill, but they help your body to
resist the same disease in the future.

10. The end