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Risk factors for non-communicable diseases

Health and disease

Unit Summary

This unit explores health and disease, including communicable and non-communicable types and their interactions. It examines lifestyle impacts, disease spread, evaluates cardiovascular treatments, and highlights the importance of risk evaluation, peer review, and effective communication of results.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to describe the effects of lifestyle factors on the incidence of non-communicable diseases at local, national and global levels.

Key Notes

  • Risk factors affect the chance that a person will develop a non-communicable disease.
  • Risk factors can be lifestyle factors, e.g. diet, smoking, environmental, e.g. air pollution, or genetic, e.g. alleles.
  • Experiencing multiple factors can increase the likelihood a person will develop a particular disease.
  • Interpreting data on non-communicable diseases and risk factors at local, national and global levels.
  • The importance of peer review and communicating research on risk factors to a range of audiences.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • non-communicable disease: a disease that cannot be passed from person to person
  • risk factor: something that increases the chance of ill health
  • correlation: a relationship or pattern between two or more variables
  • peer review: a process of subjecting an author's work, research or ideas to the scrutiny of other experts in the same field

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may think that any health claim by a product must be true.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.

Risk factors affect the chance that a person will develop a non-communicable disease. Risk factors can be lifestyle factors, e.g. diet, smoking, environmental, e.g. air pollution, or genetic, e.g. alleles.

2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'non-communicable disease'

a disease that cannot be passed from person to person. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.

3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.

Mistake: Pupils may think that any health claim by a product must be true. Correction: Often no scientific research has been carried out on products claiming to be healthy.

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