Test preparation activity

Test preparation activity

Test preparation activity

by Ayesha Shasha Van Wyk -
Number of replies: 2

Test:

Communicable diseases:

1/2 mark for one fact:

1. Define communicable diseases? (2) 

2. List individuals that are least at risk for developing or contracting communicable diseases? (2) 

3. The most common ways to contract a communicable disease? (2) 

4. List the guidelines from the World Health Organisation for tuberculosis? (4)

5.Which one is not a communicable disease? (1)

- Heart disease

- Flu

- Cold

- Stomach virus

6. Name a non-infectious disease from the following list? (1)

- HIV/AIDS

- Cancer

- Measles

- Flu

7. What is a infection called when spread from one person to another. Choose. (1)

- Communicable 

- Infectious 

- Contagious

- Virulent

8. True or false. 

Cholera is a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration that is usually spread in water. (1)

9. True or false. 

Malaria is spread by sole type of mosquitoes. (1)

In reply to Ayesha Shasha Van Wyk

Re: Test preparation activity

by Ayesha Shasha Van Wyk -

Answers:

1. - It is a temporary illness cough from a infected person. - A tempary or long-term illness, transmitted from one person to another. - A life-long illness contracted from an infected individual. - Or a disease inherited from one parent. 

2. - Under going chemotherapy. - Multiple sexual partners, not using a condom. A child of nine who has received all his immunizations. - A nurse working in a old age nursing home. 

3. - Failing to treat a high fever. - Not washing your hands. Not taking medication as precribed. - Not getting enough sleep. 

4. - To identify TB infection. - Healthcare providers will screen at risk patients to rule out active Tb, and they may use a skin or blood test to check for TB infection. - TB disease is curable. It is treated by standard 6 month course of 4 antibiotics. - Common drugs include rifampian and isoniazid. - Sputum smear microscopy. - Chest X-ray. - Culture of my bacterium tuberculosis bacilli. 

5. Heart disease

6. Cancer

7. Contagious

8. True

9. True


In reply to Ayesha Shasha Van Wyk

Re: Test preparation activity

by Ayesha Shasha Van Wyk -

My own test gives me abit of motivation to be prepared for the test that lies ahead. I feel anxious abit, but I have to make it. I have no choice, but to give it my all in the coming test.