Theme Review


In Theme 5, you learned:
  • about what causes human disease
  • about the factors that may determine how long you will live
  • about diseases that have occurred in the past
  • about the causes of epidemics
  • about epidemics that are occuring now and which ones may occur in the future
  • about the importance of a clean environment to health
  • about the importance of clean water to health
  • about public health and some public health programs
  • what a communicable disease is
  • how these diseases are transmitted
  • about the prevention of communicable diseases
  • about non-communicable diseases
  • what to do to help prevent these diseases
  • about some of the features of your body that protect it from infection and disease
  • about how the body works to fight diseases that get past the external barriers
  • about the ways vaccines and antibiotics assist human disease defences
  • about genetics and the unique code for humans' genetic makeup
  • about the role that chromosomes play and how chromosomes determine the sex of a child
  • about human diseases that result from changes to genetic makeup and about discoveries that can have positive influences on our health



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