Types of Epidemiology
This is a ongoing, usual presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people.
What is Endemic?
This Occurs when victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to person contact with others and spread the disease. This may result in a propagated outbreak.
What is Mixed Epidemic?
Occurs when the pathogen undergoes changes as part of its life cycle while within the host/vector and before being transmitting to the new host.
What is Biological Transmission?
Occurs when preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is Primary Prevention?
A specific event, condition, or characteristic that precedes the health outcome and is necessary for its occurence.
What is Cause?
The involvement of findings and quantifying associations by testing hypotheses, and identifying the causes of health-related states or events.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
A common object such as a piece of clothing, a door handle, or a utensil that can harbor an infectious agent and is capable of being a means of transmission.
What is Fomite?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism and who has done so for some time, even though the person may have recovered from the disease.
What is Active Carrier?
This requires a individual to change their behavior.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Any attempt to restore and afflicted person to a useful, productive and satisfying lifestyle.
What is Rehabilitation?
This involves characterizations of the distribution of health-related states or events.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
An invertebrate animal that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another.
What is Vector?
An individual who harbors a pathogen and who, although in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still infectious
What is Convalescent Carrier?
This does not require a individual to change their behavior.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
When testing, this refers to the ability of a program to produce a desired effect among those who participate in the program compared with those who do not.
What is Efficacy?
When discussing how a disease spreads through a population, this arises from a specific source.
What is Common-source Epidemics?
This occurs when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a susceptible host, often resulting in disease.
What is Indirect Transmission?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen, is in the beginning stages of the disease, is displaying symptoms, and has the ability to transmit the disease.
What is Incubatory Carrier?
This is aimed at the health screening and detection activities when used to identify diseases.
The habitat (living or nonliving) in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, multiplies, and on which depends for its survival in nature.
What is Reservoir?
When discussing how a disease spreads through a population, this arises from infections transmitting from one infected person to another.
What is Propagated Epidemic?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomite, or a vector.
What is Zoonosis?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen and who can spread the disease in different places or at different intervals.
What is Intermittent Carrier?
This consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a injury, disorder, or disease has already occurred.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
This model shows the interaction and interdependence of the agent, host, environment, and time.
What is Epidemiology Triangle?