Download Disease and Disease Prevention

Disease and Disease Prevention
Ch 18 pg 456
What are we going to learn?
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Learn about noninfectious diseases
Risk factors for noninfectious diseases
Ways to prevent noninfectious diseases
Ways to treat noninfectious diseases
Bellringer?
• What is the difference between a
noninfectious disease and an infectious
disease?
• Noninfectious diseases are not caused by
pathogens vs. Infectious diseases are caused
by pathogens.
What is a Pathogen?
• path·o·gen (pth-jn)
• n.
• An agent that causes disease, especially a
living microorganism such as a bacterium,
virus, or fungus.
Read with a Partner
• Silently read two pages 456-57
• Write down the main ideas of the two pages
• Your partner needs to read your summary and
add one more idea or fact you both just read
about
• Then, do the same for the last two pages of
the lesson on pages 458-59
Answer the following Questions?
• What is a risk factor?
• What is a symptom? How are symptoms
related to diseases?
• Name four ways that noninfectious diseases
can be treated?
Complete the Quiz
• If you do not receive a score of 70% or better,
you will redo the test again tomorrow.
• Goodluck!