HEALTH
FACT OR BLUFF
Directions: Write F T if the sentence stated is true FACT and B F if the sentence is wrong BLUFF.
_____31. Disease is a condition that prevents the body or mind from working normally.
_____32. Arthritis is chronic condition which breathing becomes difficult.
_____33. The ways to treat cancer is through radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy.
_____34. Diabetes is a disease in which the body produces little or no insulin at all.
_____35. Kidney failure is a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter waste product.
_____36. Alcohol users kill nearly 6 million people a year according to WHO.
_____37. NCDs are responsible for 63% of all deaths worldwide (36 million out of 57 million global deaths).
_____38. Non-communicable or chronic diseases –are non-infectious illnesses which may result from hereditary
or lifestyle factors and not from pathogens.
_____39. Common communicable diseases are dengue, diarrhea, chicken fox,
influenza, acute respiratory
infection, tuberculosis, sore eyes and AIDS/HIV.
_____40. Communicable diseases are illness that can be transferred or passed from one person to another.
