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Monitoring & maintaining health - Communicable diseases - OCR Gateway Different types of disease

Health is the state of physical and mental well-being. Factors can work together to both physical and mental health. A disease is a disorder that affects an organism’s body, organs, tissues or cells.

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Different types of disease

can be grouped into two types:

  • communicable, or infectious, which can be transferred from one person to another, or from one organism to another, eg in humans, these include measles, food poisoning and malaria
  • non-communicable, which are not transferred between people or other organisms, eg cancer or Type 1 diabetes

Non-communicable diseases include:

  • inherited diseases and conditions like
  • which are caused by a lack of essential vitamins or , such as scurvy which occurs when an individual has insufficient vitamin C
  • which develops as a result of exposure to or develops naturally as cell division occurs incorrectly

Non-communicable diseases can be caused by factors such as:

  • and other
  • accidents and other situations
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