Question

Overview: As a community healthcare professional, you will need an understanding of the risk factors of diseases. This activity provides you with the opportunity to use a graphic organizer, which is an excellent educational tool you may use in your future career. Prompt: Before completing this activity, read about genetic risk and behavioral determinants of health. Then create a graphic organizer that demonstrates your understanding of risk factors. Be sure to address both genetic and behavioral determinants by describing each. Include genetic and behavioral determinants within your graphic organizer (at least four of each). This guide will help you understand more about graphic organizers. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: • Describe at least four genetic risk factors for communicable diseases. • Describe at least four behavioral determinants as risk factors for communicable diseases. Guidelines for Submission: Consider a free online graphic organizer tool such as Creately, Popplet Lite, or Bubbl to create this assignment and submit your graphic organizer as a PDF, JPEG, PowerPoint file, or Word file.

It's communicable disease

Answer 1

Ans) Genetic Risk Factors:

- Dysfunctional gene behaviour is commonly termed as a mutation. These mutations are responsible for causing illnesses. Moreover, if the gene mutations exist in the egg or sperm cell, children can inherit the defective gene from their parents. Diseases can occur due to a defect in a single gene or in a set of genes. According to the degree of gene mutation, diseases are categorised into the following:

Chromosomal diseases: occur when the entire chromosome, or large segments of a chromosome, is missing, duplicated or otherwise altered. Down Syndrome is a prominent example of a chromosomal abnormality.
Single-gene disorders: occur when an alteration occurs in a gene causing one gene to stop working. An example of a single gene disorder is sickle-cell anaemia.
Multifactorial disorders: occur as the result of mutations in multiple genes, frequently coupled with environmental causes. An example of a multifactorial disorder is diabetes.
Mitochondrial disorders: are rare disorders caused by mutations in non-chromosomal DNA located within the mitochondria. (The mitochondria are subcellular organelles.) These disorders can be found to affect any part of the body including the brain and the muscles.

- Behavioral Risk Factors. Several behaviors that exert a strong influence on health are: tobacco use, alcohol consumption, physical activity and diet, sexual practices, and disease screening.