Transmissions
The physical transmission of a pathogen from one person to another
What is direct transmission?
A person in a population who has a disease, disorder, injury, or condition
What is a case?
Someone who is host to a pathogen even though they might have already recovered
What is an active carrier?
Preventing a disease/illness/etc. from happening in the first place
What is primary prevention?
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is epidemiology?
A pathogen that is carried through an intermediary before it infects the susceptible host
What is indirect transmission?
The first disease case in a population
What is a primary case?
A person who has the disease and is in the recovery stage
What is a convalescent carrier?
Heavily monitoring a disease, identifying it, and preventing it
What is secondary prevention?
Bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi
What is a pathogen?
Droplets or dust particles that carry the infection and spread it
What is airborne transmission?
The first case that epidemiologists are aware of
What is an index case?
A person that plays host to a particular pathogen but hasn't shown any symptoms
What is a healthy carrier?
Individual behavior needs changing in order to prevent the disease/illness/virus/injury from occurring
What is active primary prevention?
Describes and characterizes the distribution of diseases and/or health-related events
What is descriptive epidemiology?
Arthropods carry the disease/pathogen and transport it to a host
What is vector-borne transmission?
Cases that stem from a person becoming infected after having contact with the primary case
What are secondary cases?
Someone that hosts the pathogen and is in the preliminary stages of the disease
What is an incubatory carrier?
Doesn't require personal behavior change and the onus is placed on the government/state to make things safer for civilians
What is passive primary prevention?
Using scientific methods such as forming a hypothesis and analyzing data to identify the cause(s) of a particular disease
What is analytical epidemiology?
A pathogen that changes while inside the host and also before it is transmitted to a new host
What is biological transmission?
A person or group of people who show all symptoms of an illness/disease but haven't been officially diagnosed with it yet
What is a suspect case?
Someone that hosts a pathogen and can spread it in various different locations and/or intervals
What is an intermittent carrier?
Limiting the negative impact a disease/illness/injury/virus can have on a person by providing that person with rehabilitation
A method of identifying the spread of a disease by analyzing the host, environment, and infectious agent
What is the epidemiological triangle?