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Monitoring & maintaining health - Communicable diseases - OCR Gateway Science calculations - interpreting graphs and diagrams

Health is the state of physical and mental well-being. Factors can work together to both physical and mental health. A disease is a disorder that affects an organism鈥檚 body, organs, tissues or cells.

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Science calculations - interpreting graphs and diagrams

Interpreting information from graphs

The UK Government records annual statistics about the numbers of sexually transmitted diseases. The instances of syphilis and gonorrhoea from 2013 to 2023 are shown in line graphs below. Both are bacterial diseases, transmitted by sex with an infected person.

A graph of the number of diagnoses of syphilis from 2013 to 2023
Figure caption,
The number of diagnoses of syphilis from 2013 to 2023
A graph showing the number of cases of gonorrhoea from 2013 to 2023
Figure caption,
The number of diagnoses of gonorrhoea from 2013 to 2023

Question

What conclusions about syphilis can you draw from this data? Use numbers in your answer. [4 marks]

Question

What conclusions about gonorrhoea can you draw from this data? Use numbers in your answer. [4 marks]

Interpreting information from diagrams

The rates of gonorrhoea diagnosis in England in 2022 are shown in the diagram below.

Number of diagnoses of gonorrhoea from 2022 per 100,000 population

Question

What conclusions about gonorrhoea can you draw from this data? Use numbers in your answer. [4 marks]