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Monitoring & maintaining health - Communicable diseases - OCR Gateway Interactions between different types of diseases

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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Interactions between different types of diseases

  • Different types of disease may interact.
    • For instance, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, which lead to AIDS, affect the efficiency of the immune system. This means people with HIV and AIDS get more infectious diseases than a healthy person. A common infectious disease that occurs in HIV patients is tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection, mainly affecting the lungs.
  • living in cells can be the trigger for cancers.
    • For instance, the majority of cases of cancer of the are linked with a virus present in the female called HPV.
  • The reaction of the immune system to and other foreign bodies can trigger allergic reactions that lead to skin rashes and .
    • For instance, severe respiratory infections in babies can lead to asthma in later childhood.
  • Severe physical ill health can lead to and other types of mental illness.