Diseases and Prevention: 5 practice questions

Associating symptoms with diseases helps a person to:

1. ignore the illness completely
2. seek the right treatment sooner
3. avoid all medical care
4. guess randomly about their health

Assessing avoidable causes of disease includes recognising that:

1. all diseases are completely unavoidable
2. hygiene has no connection to illness
3. poor hygiene and dirty water can be prevented and avoided
4. clean water makes no difference

Why should road side or auto medication be questioned?

1. They are always properly tested and safe
2. They are cheaper and therefore always better
3. There is no real danger in using them
4. Such drugs may be fake, expired, or wrongly dosed

Advising peers about healthy lifestyles could include encouraging them to:

1. eat well, exercise and see a doctor when needed
2. avoid all medical checkups
3. ignore symptoms of illness
4. take unprescribed drugs freely

Explaining a treatment for a common illness like a cold might include:

1. ignoring it completely with no rest
2. rest, fluids and seeing a health worker if it worsens
3. taking any random strong drug
4. avoiding all fluids