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Disease and Disease Prevention

Disease and Disease Prevention. Ch 18 pg 456. What are we going to learn?. Learn about noninfectious diseases Risk factors for noninfectious diseases Ways to prevent noninfectious diseases Ways to treat noninfectious diseases. Bellringer ?.

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Disease and Disease Prevention

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  1. Disease and Disease Prevention Ch 18 pg 456

  2. What are we going to learn? • Learn about noninfectious diseases • Risk factors for noninfectious diseases • Ways to prevent noninfectious diseases • Ways to treat noninfectious diseases

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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?

  7. Complete the Quiz • If you do not receive a score of 70% or better, you will redo the test again tomorrow. • Goodluck!

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