Foodborne illness
This US video explains how a foodborne illness (Listeria) caused food poisoning which affected her babies – taken from an education video for healthcare professionals.
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Illness is defines as:
a. Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness.
b. A disease.
Common Illnesses include:
In these days, what used to be a common occurrence in autumn or winter has morphed into a life- and freedom-threatening issue. If you cough twice have you got a cold? Or flu? or Covid? See this article from Pfizer on symptoms. You find out more about Covid-19 on EpidemicDrive
There is information available which will help you formulate your action plan – both on our site and on external sites.
FuelDrive looks at how what you put into your body can make you healthier
Keeping fit will help you avoid illnesses.
The NHS have a raft of information on illnesses (and conditions) which includes symptoms, causes and treatments of common illnesses and conditions. Includes injuries, infections and poisoning.
The University of Rochester site shows the top 10 most common health issues which are
Physical Activity and Nutrition
Overweight and Obesity
Tobacco
Substance Abuse
HIV/AIDS
Mental Health
Injury and Violence
Environmental Quality
Immunization
Access to Health Care
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This US video explains how a foodborne illness (Listeria) caused food poisoning which affected her babies – taken from an education video for healthcare professionals.
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You may be able to take this questionnaire online – either here on our site or on an external site – or download it and complete it on paper – it depends on copyright (and whether we’ve managed to build it on our site!).
The ways you can take a questionnaire:
You can take a questionnaire on our site. This will score the questions automatically and give you a summary showing what your score means.
You will see our questionnaire first, possibly followed by a tab which may contain a second questionnaire (see above). If you scroll down you will see links to external questionnaire(s) or downloads if there are any. Scroll down until you get to the right place for you!
This questionnaire is based on the the Somatic Symptom Questionnaire —Adult Patient (adapted from the Patient Health Questionnaire Physical Symptoms [PHQ-15]). It is is 15 simple questions which are all scored based on your experience in the last seven days.
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