Types of Disease Spread
An outbreak of infectious disease among a community
What is an epidemic
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is Epidemiology?
A model of disease causation that helps us understand the interrelated nature of factors that contribute to disease.
What is the epidemiology triangle?
Humans; possibly monkeys are example of this
What is Reservoirs?
This prevention aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs.
What is Primary prevention?
The coronavirus spread across several countries and affected a large, this type of outbreak was classified as what.
What is a Pandemic?
This occurs when there is no direct human-to-human contact.
Indirect transmission
Any organism that can be infected by a pathogen. This is the “Who.”
What is a Host?
These individuals are vulnerable to developing infection when their bodies are invaded by germs.
What is Susceptible host?
Some examples of type of prevention includes exercise, diet, to stop smoking.
What is Passive primary prevention?
A disease found among a specific group of individuals in a specific area
What is an Endemic?
This type of transmission occurs when there is physical contact between an infected person and a susceptible person.
What is Direct transmission?
Any organism that can be infected by a pathogen. The What of the triangle.
What is an Infectious Agent?
Pathogen is transmitted through skin into blood through a mosquito bite is an example of
What is Portal of entry?
This type of prevention requires behavioral change on the individual’s part.
What is Active primary prevention?
These types of disease are seen occasionally and usually without geographic concentration.
What is Sporadic Disease?
This Characterization of the distribution of health-related events.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
External factors that allow disease transmission.
What is Environment?
Pathogen leaves via the skin of an infected person through a mosquito bite is an example of
What is the Portal of exit?
Trying to detect a disease early and prevent it from getting worse is this type of prevention.
What is Secondary prevention?
An endemic can lead to this when numbers increase beyond normal. A sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place
What is an Outbreak?
The main objective of this type of epidemiology is to assess the determinants of diseases, risk factors and causes and analyze the distribution of diseases and their exposures. The key feature of is that it uses comparison groups.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
Located in the center of the triangle. Considered the duration of the illness.
What is time?
Indirect transmission to humans by mosquito vector is an example of
What is Mode of transmission?
This type of prevention aims to reduce the effects of the disease once established in an individual.
What is Tertiary prevention?