Health
Types of diseases
1. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
- Heart disease
- Stroke disease
- Cancer disease
- Chronic respiratory disease
- Diabetes disease
2. Communicable diseases
- Hepatitis A, B & C
- Common cold
- Influenza
- Measles
- Acute Pharyngitis
- Acute Bronchitis
- Pneumonia
Key vocabulary
- Symptoms (n.) – any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease
- Robust (adj.) – (of a person or animal) strong and healthy, or (of an object or system) strong and unlikely to break or fail
- Detrimental (adj.) – causing harm or damage
- Mitigate (v.) – to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad
- Recuperate (v.) – to become well again after an illness; to get back your strength, health, etc.
- Hygiene (n.) – the degree to which people keep themselves or their environment clean, especially to prevent disease
- Aggravate (v.) – to make a bad situation worse
- Endurance (n.) – the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time
- Regimen (n.) – any set of rules about food and exercise that someone follows, especially in order to improve their health
- Immunity (n.) – a situation in which you are protected against disease or from legal action
- Stressor (n.) – something that causes stress (= great worry or emotional difficulty)
Expression
- Aches and pains – minor pains that continue over a period of time
- To be a bit off color – to feel a little ill
- To be at death’s door – (informal) to be very ill indeed
- To be on the mend – to be recovering after an illness
- To be over the worst – to have got through the most serious or uncomfortable stage of an illness
- To be under the weather – (informal) to not feel well
- A blocked nose – When the nose has excess fluid due to a cold
- To catch a cold – to get a cool
- A check-up – a physical examination by a doctor
- A chesty cough – a cough caused by congestion around the lungs
- Cuts and bruises – minor injuries
- To feel poorly – to feel ill
- As fit as a fiddle – to be very healthy
- To go down with a cold – to become ill
- To go private – to choose to be treated by commercial healthcare rather than by services offered by the state
- GP – General Practitioner (family doctor)
- To have a filling – to have a tooth repaired
- To have a tooth out – to have a tooth removed
- A heavy cold – a bad cold
- To make an appointment – to arrange a time to see the doctor
- To make a speedy recovery – to recovery quickly from an illness
- To phone in sick – to call work to explain you won’t be attending work due to illness
- Prescription charges – money the patient pays for medicine authorized by a doctor
- To pull a muscle – to strain a muscle
- A runny nose – a nose that has liquid coming out of it
- A sore throat – inflammation that causes pain when swallowing
Expression
- In bed shape – in poor physical condition
- Back on your feet – after an illness or accident, you are physically healthy again
- Full of beans – a person who is full of beans is lively, active and healthy
- Off color – your look or feel ill
- Junk food – food that is bad for us because it contains large amount of harmful substance like artificial coloring, preservatives, salt refined, sugar and so on