Epidemiology
The practice that promotes health and preventss health problems in a community
What is public health?
Affect a wide geographic area
What is a pandemic?
A tool that contains the interaction of agent, host, environment, and time
What is the epidemiology triangle?
Habitat where agent develops and reproduce
What is a reservoir?
prevents illness from occurring at all
What is primary prevention?
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is Epidemiology?
arises from a specific source
What is a common source epidemic?
cause of disease ex. bacteria, viruses, parasites.
What is agent?
An individual that harbors pathogen without symptoms
What is a healthy carrier?
minimize disability when the condition has caused damage
What is tertiary prevention?
bacteria, viruses, fungi, mold, or parasites capable of producing disease
What is a pathogen?
The constant presence of disease over time in a specific region
What is an endemic?
external factors that contribute to transmission
What is environment?
the agent is transferred by a intermediary
What is an indirect transmission?
activities that minimize the risk of progression
What is secondary prevention?
A study that investigates association and identifies causes of a health event
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
Type of epidemic where common source victims spread disease by a person to person contact
What is a mixed epidemic?
animal or human susceptible to disease
What is host?
animal disease could be transmitted to humans
What is zoonosis?
does not require behavior change
What is active primary prevention?
Investigation designed to describe the distribution of diseases
What is descriptive epidemiology?
Transmission of infectious disease from person to person
What is propagated epidemic?
section of the triangle that includes incubation period, life expectancy and duration of disease
What is time?
Indirect transmission where non-living objects contain infectious disease
What is a vehicle-borne transmission?
actions that require behavior change
What is primary passive prevention?