Concepts that take part in Disease Transmission
Items such as clothing, towels, and utensils that a disease transmitting agent could attach to and be capable of transmitting.
What is a Formite?
The constant presence of a disease that we would expect to see among a community or group of people.
What is an Endemic?
This is thought to be the cause of the disease.
What is an Agent?
The entryway in which a disease or pathogen enters the body.
What is the Portal of entry?
The prevention of a disease or disorder before it takes place.
What is Primary prevention?
An invertebrate animal such as a tick or mosquito that is capable of transmitting infectious disease agents to humans and animals.
What is a Vector?
When the report of illness, a health related disease or event takes place in a behavior that is higher than what we would expect to find in that community.
This is an organism, usually thought to be a human or animal that is known to harbor a disease.
What is a Host?
When disease transmission can occur because pathogen or disease has left the reservoir through a portal.
What is a Portal of exit?
The act of prevention that requires a change of behavior to come from the individual who has experienced the disease or health related disorder.
What is Active primary prevention?
An infectious organism that can be found in vertebrate animals such as rabies, that can be transmitted to humans though avenues such as direct contact, a formite or a vector.
What is Zoonosis?
An epidemic which spreads to an excessive amount outside the original area of spread and may have also been spread worldwide.
What is a Pandemic?
This is the physical, biological, chemical, social factor and so on that can influence the health status of populations.
What is the Environment?
The direct and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another which requires physical contact between infected host and the susceptible person that includes the transfer of the pathogen.
What is Direct transmission?
These are activities aimed at the health screening and early detection used to identify the disease. If the pathogenicity of the disease is found early, the treatment from there can prevent or slow down the disease from spreading.
Individuals who harbor a pathogen that may be on the road to recovery but are considered to still be infectious.
What is a Convalescent carrier?
This occurs when an infected person transmits the infection to another person which may lead to more spread of the infection.
What is a Propagated epidemic?
What is Time?
Occurs when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a susceptible host resulting in disease.
This level of prevention consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury or disorder has already occurred and caused damage.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Individuals who have already been infected with a disease who and are capable of spreading the disease at different places or times.
What is an Incubatory carrier?
A type of epidemic where infected individuals had exposure to the disease from a common element.
What is a Common source epidemic?
An infectious disease model that shows the connection between 4 Epidemiological factors that often aid in the outbreak of a disease.
What is the Triangle of epidemiology?
The sequence of transmission where an agent moves from a reservoir or host through a portal of exit, then is sent through some mode of transmission to a portal of entry in order to infect the susceptible host.
What is the Chain of Infection?
The main purpose for this is to promote the highest quality of life possible, given the extent of the disease while attempting to restore an afflicted person to a useful, productive and satisfying lifestyle.
What is Rehabilitation?