Question

Chapter 4 • Communicable & Noncommunicable Diseases: Prevention & Control of Diseases & Health Conditions • All answers are found in the textbook, do not use any other source

1. What is the only communicable disease that has been eradicated from the human population?

2. According to the chapter, what is the annual economic cost to the U.S. federal, state, and local governments on the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs?

3. Be able to define: communicable and noncommunicable diseases/illnesses

4. Acute diseases are diseases in which the peak severity of symptoms occurs and subsides within how many months?

5. Write down two examples provided in the chapter of CHRONIC communicable diseases

6. Write down two examples provided in the chapter of CHRONIC noncommunicable illnesses

7. Write down two examples provided in the chapter of ACUTE communicable diseases

8. Write down two examples provided in the chapter of ACUTE noncommunicable diseases

9. According to the chapter, what year did heart disease become the leading cause of death in the U.S.?

10. On page 93, the chain of infection is described and illustrated in Figure 4.2. Page 93 also gives an example for each link. On the quiz, a similar figure (see below) will be provided. I will provide terms for a sexually transmitted infection and you will have to place each term in the correct link in the chain of infection.

Pathogen > Reservoir > Exit Portal > Transmission > Entry Portal > Establishment of infection in new host

Answer 1

1. Small pox.

the WHO declared on 8 th may 1980 that smallpox had been eradicated.

2.

3. communicable disease

those diseases for which biologic products or their cause and that are transmissible from one individual to another.

non -communicable disease

that cannot be transmitted from one person to another

4.acute disease

disease in which peak severity symptoms occurs and subsides within 3 months

5. tuberculosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV)

6.coronary heart disease and cancer

7. Rabies and typhoid fever

8.cataract and asthma