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SCIENCE 5.
C.E.I.P. SANTA ANA (Madridejos)
UNIT 3. OUR HEALTH. 1
CONTENTS: 1.– Health and illness. 2.– Types of diseases: infectious / non-infectious. 3.– Prevention of disease: .– Healthy diet. .– Hygiene habits. .– Regular exercise… .– Being responsible. 4.– Science and health: .– Access to medical care. .– Medical advances. 5.– First aid care.
Remember something about human body:
1.– HEALTH AND ILLNESS. Health is a state of complete physical and mental well-being, We can speak about two types of health: not only the absence something of diseaseabout or pain . Remember the human body. .– Physical health: when all organs in our body work in a right way, and we don’t feel any pain. .– Mental health: when we feel good with ourselves and with the rest of people. When we don’t have any psychological disorder. Illness or disease is a state of being unhealthy So we can speak about physical diseases and mental diseases. in our body or mind. If we have a physical disease, our body doesn’t work properly and we feel bad. We have fever, we have a cough, 2 we sneeze, or we have a pain… These disorders are called symptoms and they help the doctor to know what disease we have. When we have a mental disorder, we don’t feel good with ourselves like in depression, stress, anorexia... 2.– TYPES OF DISEASES. First, we are going to divide diseases in two great groups, depending of the cause of the disease: Infectious diseases are transmitted by infectious agents (germs). Example: the flu. Non-infectious diseases are caused by other reasons. Example: a heartatack. 2.1.– Infectious diseases: When an infectious agent get into your body, you’ll be ill. These agents are microscopic, and the most common ones are pathogenic bacteria, and viruses. We can get the disease when we breath infected air (air with bacteria or viruses), or when we touch infected objects, when a mosquito or another animal bites us, by an open wound in our skin...
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Viruses in the air.(Contagious disease)
A.- Contagiuous diseases: when the disease is transmitted by contact from an infected person, or object.The transmission could be through the air (caughs, sneezes…), by touching the other person, by a mosquito (malaria)… B.– Non-contagious diseases: When the disease can’t be transmitted from an infected person to another one. Infected wound. (Non-contagious disease) USEFUL WORDS: .– healt .– illness / disease / sickness .– symptoms .– infectious / non-infectious
.– pain .– wound
.– physical / mental health .- contagious / non-contagious