Epidemiology & role in Public health practice
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is Epidemiology?
Comes from a specific source
What is Common-source epidemic?
A person in a population who has been identified as having a certain disease, disorder, injury, or condition
What is a Case?
Also called passive carrier
What is a Healthy carrier?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it occurs
What is Primary prevention?
The ability of a program to produce a desired program compared with those who do not
What is Efficacy?
Arises from infections transmitted from one person to another
What is Propagated epidemic?
The first disease case in the population
What is a Primary case?
Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism
What is an Active carrier?
Inquires the behavior change in an individual
What Active primary prevention?
The ability of a program to produce benefits that are offered to those in the program
What is Effectiveness?
An epidemic that affects the population of an extensive region, country, or continent
What is a Pandemic?
The first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist
What is a Index case?
An individual who harbors a pathogen and who, although in the recovery phase of the course of the disease
What is a Convalescent carrier?
Does not inquire behavior change in an individual
What is Passive primary prevention?
Involves the characterization of distribution of health related events
What is Descriptive epidemiology?
Occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events
What is a Epidemic?
A person who becomes infected and ill after a disease has been introduced into a population
What is a Secondary case?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen, displays symptoms in the beginning, and has the ability to transmit disease
What is a Incubatory carrier?
Use of health-screening and detection activities that are used to identify the disease
What is Secondary prevention?
Finding and quantifying associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying causes of health-related events
Refers the ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people
What is an Endemic?
An individual who has all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but has not been diagnosed
What is a Suspect case?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen and who can spread the disease in different places
What is a Intermittent carrier?
Limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disease that has already caused damage
What is Tertiary prevention?