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Investigating Disease: Lung cancer and Pneumonia Contents Introduction Page 2 Health, Disease and epidemiology Page 3 The causes and distribution of communicable Page 6 and non-communicable diseases Diagnosis, treatment and facilities to support Page 9 individuals with disease The strategies available for the prevention of diseases Page13 and the use of epidemiological methods for tracking diseases Evaluation Page15 Conclusion Page 16 Bibliography Page 17 Introduction The aim of this assignment is to develop my awareness of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. I am going to compare two diseases. One disease chosen for the assignment is pneumonia, a communicable disease, caused by micro-organisms and can be transmitted from one person to another. The other disease I have chosen to investigate is lung cancer, a non-communicable disease, which is not caused by living organisms and is not usually passed on from one person to another. I have chosen two...

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