Zusammenfassung der Ressource
6 categories of disease
- deficiency-disease
resulting from a lack of
vitamins/ minerals in the
diet or failure to absorb
them from food
- scurvey
- rickets
- infectious- easily or readily
spread an infection from
one person to another
- influenza (flu)
- tuberculosis (TB)
- degenerative- gradual
deterioration of organs and
cells with loss of function
over time
- coronary heart disease (CHD/CAD)
- osteoarthiristus
- inherited- to receive a
characteristic from ones
parents through genetic
transmission
- cystic fibrosis
- red green colour blindness
- mental- disease that can
affect the intellectual and
emotional well-being of
someone
- depression
- bi-polar
- social/lifestyle- disease
caused by lifestyle or the
environment around you
- smoking related diseases
(lung cancer)
- chlamydia