INFECTION

INFECTION
• Is a condition in which pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses, enter the
body and multiply.
• This process causes symptoms of a disease
• Infectious or communicable diseases can spread from one living thing to
another.
 What are the stages of infection?

INCUBATION STAGE PRODROMAL STAGE

ACUTE STAGE

DECLINING STAGE CONVALESCENT STAGE

 INCUBATION STAGE
• The time between the exposure to a contagious disease and the
appearance of symptoms.
• Incubation period varies from hours to months, depending on the type of
pathogen.
• Cold can develop in a few hours
 PRODROMAL STAGE
• Generally lasts about one or two days, during which the body reacts to the
presence of pathogen.
• Signs and symptoms of the disease show during this stage.
• The diseases is now communicable at this stage
 ACUTE STAGE
• The period when the diseases is at its highest point that the signs and
symptoms can be clinically tested to diagnose the disease.
 DECLINING STAGE
• Is the period when symptoms start to subside and the patient may feel
improvement but still cannot return to doing normal activities.
• The infection is still present but now reduced
 CONVALESCENT STAGE
• When the patient recovers his/her strength and returns to his/her normal
state of health.

• Essentially, identifying the stage of infection during an illness gives clear

understanding of the state of health of the patient
LEADING CAUSES OF
MORBIDITY AND
MORTALITY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
 What are the leading causes of morbidity
and mortality in the Philippines?
• Morbidity discusses the disease state of an individual, or the occurrence
of illness in a population; while mortality is the number of death in a
population
 Top 10 Causes of Mortality
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal 11, 514
period
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis 13, 799
Diabetes mellitus 22, 345
Chronic lower respiratory diseases 22, 755
Tuberculosis, all forms 25, 470
Accidents 35, 990
Pneumonia 42, 642
Malignant Neoplasm 47, 642
Diseases of Vascular System 65, 489
Diseases of the heart 100, 908
Top 10 Leading Causes of Morbidity