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Students should be able to describe the relationship between health and disease and the interactions between different types of disease. |
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Health is the state of physical and mental well-being. |
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What does the term "health" relate to? |
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Diseases, both communicable and non-communicable, are major causes of ill health. Other factors including diet, stress and life situations may have a profound effect on both physical and mental health. |
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What factors can relate to ill health? |
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Different types of disease may interact. Defects in the immune system mean that an individual is more likely to suffer from infectious diseases |
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Can some diseases cause a person to contract other illnesses? |
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Viruses living in cells can be the trigger for cancers. |
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How are viruses linked to cancer? |
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Immune reactions initially caused by a pathogen can trigger allergies such as skin rashes and asthma. |
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How are immune reactions related to allergies? |
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Severe physical ill health can lead to depression and other mental illness. |
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What other impacts can severe physical illness have on a person? |
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Students should be able to translate disease incidence information between graphical and numerical forms, construct and interpret frequency tables and diagrams, bar charts and histograms, and use a scatter diagram to identify a correlation between two variables. (MS) |
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What does the term "relationship" mean when referring to disease incidence data presented in a table or graph? |
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Students should understand the principles of sampling as applied to scientific data, including epidemiological data. (MS) |
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What does epidemiological data refer to? Explain how physical and mental health can influence each other.
Explain how infections can lead to other conditions. |
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