Quelpr
3 marksHealth and Disease

CAPE Biology Unit 2 · 2010 · Paper 2 · Question 3(a)(ii)

Concepts of health and classification of disease categories.

Differentiate between EACH of the categories of disease listed with respect to the cause of the diseases: physical and mental; infectious and non-infectious; deficiency and inherited.

The mark scheme is shown once you've answered.

Practise this question

Other parts of this question

  1. 3(a)(i)Define the term 'health'.[1 mark]
  2. 3(a)(iii)Explain the difficulty in classifying protein-energy malnutrition as a non-infectious, physical, deficiency disease.[3 marks]
  3. 3(b)(i)Discuss the curves for laryngeal and lung cancer, and breast cancer.[4 marks]
  4. 3(b)(ii)Suggest TWO reasons for the difference in the shapes of the curves.[2 marks]
  5. 3(b)(iii)Outline TWO challenges that health authorities in the Caribbean may face in reversing the trends for laryngeal and lung cancer.[2 marks]

More practice: the rest of this paper · more Health and Disease questions · all CAPE Biology Unit 2 past papers