Test preparation activity

Test preparation activity

Test preparation activity

di Ayesha Shasha Van Wyk -
Numero di risposte: 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 riposta a Ayesha Shasha Van Wyk

Re: Test preparation activity

di 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 riposta a Ayesha Shasha Van Wyk

Re: Test preparation activity

di 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.