Types of Outbreaks
Diagnosis
Levels of Prevention
Transportation of Diseases
Types of Carriers
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What is an Epidemic?

in a specific population where an health issues occurs

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What does term "case" mean in epidemiology?

individual diagnosed to an injury, disease, or condition

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What is Primary Prevention?

protecting oneself before one is expose

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What is Direct transmission?

physically touching a contaminated surface/person

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What is a Carrier?

an occupant that contains and spreads infectious agents

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What is an Endemic?

A persistent health issue that occurs in a population

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What is index case?

first case that epidemiologist notice

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What is Active Primary Prevention?

change in behavior to optimize one's health

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What is Indirect Transmission?

pathogens that are carried and transferred through objects or organisms 

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Active Carrier

an individual that harbors disease for something after being exposed, and spreads it after recovery

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What is a Pandemic?

an epidemic affecting at a world wide scale

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What is primary case?

 first infected individual in the population

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What is Passive Primary Prevention?

No requirement of change behavior

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Airborne Transmission

infectious agents spreading through air
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What is Convalescent Carrier?

An individual in the process of recovery that is still infectious

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Common Source

epidemic arising from a main source

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What is Secondary case?

diagnosed individual after known disease

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What is Secondary prevention?

Actions taken to reduce disease growth

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Vehicle borne Transmission

intermediate where infectious agents are transferred and infect

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What is a Healthy Carrier?

individual that shows no signs of disease after being exposed, can potentially spread

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Propagated

source found to be transmitted from an individual to another

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What is Suspect case?

 individual who shows signs and symptoms yet not diagnosed

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What is Tertiary Prevention?

Actions taken to limit diseases affect on an individual

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What is Vector borne Transmission?

an invertebrate animal that transmits pathogens to other vertebrates

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Intermitted Carrier

one that was exposed to pathogen, and harbors and spreads it through different times and places

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