Epidemiology
Epidemic that affects extensive regions or populations
What is a pandemic?
The uninterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious agent
What is Direct transmission?
The chain a pathogen follow on its path of infection
What is the chain of infection?
a nonliving object that can harbor and infectious agent.
What is a fomite?
Prevention disease or disorder before it happens
What is primary preventions?
Infections from one person to another
What is a propagated epidemic?
When droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen
What is airborne transmission?
Where the pathogen enters the body
What is portal of entry?
the habitat where the infectious agent lives
what is a reservoir?
An attempt to restore an afflicted person to a useful and productive lifestyle
What is rehabilitation?
distribution of health related states or events
What is descriptive epidemiology?
An inanimate object that conveys an infectious agent
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
Where the pathogen leaves the body and is spread through other modes
What is portal of exit?
Someone who harbors a pathogen, recovered but is still infectious.
What is a convalescent carrier?
To block the progression of a disability, condition or disorder from progression
What is tertiary prevention?
Ability of a program to produce a desired effect
What is efficacy?
When an anthropod conveys the infectious agent
What is a vector-borne transmission?
Cause of the disease
What is the agent?
infectious organism in vertebrate animals
what is zoonosis?
Looks at health screenings and detection activities used to identify a disease
What is secondary prevention?
Victims of common source epidemic have contact with others and spread the disease
What is a mixed epidemic?
When the pathogen undergoes its life cycle while within the host/vector
What is biological transmission?
Bacteria, fungus, or parasite
What is a pathogen?
Someone who has a pathogen and can spread it in different places
What is an intermittent carrier?
Primary prevention that requires behavior change of an individual
What is active primary prevention?