Common Diseases
BY WAMUKOTA SAMWEL
, LEARNING OBJECTIVES
➢Meaning of terms
➢Types of diseases
➢Natural history of diseases
➢Stages of disease development
➢Types of communicable diseases
, CONT…
➢Modes of transmission of communicable diseases
➢Types of non-communicable diseases
➢Risk factors of non-communicable diseases
➢Control and prevention measures of communicable diseases
➢Basic management of common diseases
, Definition of terms
• Disease: is any harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional
state of an organism, generally associated with certain signs and
symptoms.
• Pathology: is the study of disease which involves the determination of the
cause(etiology), the understanding of its mechanism of
development(pathogenesis), the structural changes associated with the
disease process (morphological changes), and the functional consequences
of those changes.
BY WAMUKOTA SAMWEL
, LEARNING OBJECTIVES
➢Meaning of terms
➢Types of diseases
➢Natural history of diseases
➢Stages of disease development
➢Types of communicable diseases
, CONT…
➢Modes of transmission of communicable diseases
➢Types of non-communicable diseases
➢Risk factors of non-communicable diseases
➢Control and prevention measures of communicable diseases
➢Basic management of common diseases
, Definition of terms
• Disease: is any harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional
state of an organism, generally associated with certain signs and
symptoms.
• Pathology: is the study of disease which involves the determination of the
cause(etiology), the understanding of its mechanism of
development(pathogenesis), the structural changes associated with the
disease process (morphological changes), and the functional consequences
of those changes.
