Syllabus content and objectives
Official JAMB Physical and Health Education outline · Section K: Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases
Contents / notes
- Definition and classification of communicable diseases
- Air-borne and respiratory diseases: measles, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis and cerebrospinal meningitis
- Water-borne and food-borne diseases: dysentery, cholera and typhoid fever
- Insect-borne diseases: malaria, yellow fever and trypanosomiasis
- Worm infections: Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm and Guinea worm
- Animal-borne diseases: rabies and leptospirosis
- Contact diseases: gonorrhoea, syphilis, ringworm, leprosy and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Prevention and control measures: immunization, sterilization and isolation
Candidate objectives
- Define communicable disease and state its classification with examples.
- Highlight prevention and control measures for communicable diseases.
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