Transmission Terms
Occurs when pathogens transfer between direct physical contact with an infected vehicle.
What is Direct Transmission?
Any factor, event or entity that has a condition of health.
What is determinant?
person or animal that has the ability to transmit disease but does not show signs of the disease.
What is Carrier?
The diagram that shows how the infection spreads.
What is the Chain of infection?
Aims to prevent a health problem before it ever occurs.
Primary Prevention
What is indirect transmission?
Deals with studying health problems that include the three points of host, agent, and environment.
What is the Epidemiology Triangle
What is a Passive Carrier?
Indirectly transmitting an infectious agent.
What is Vehicle?
What is secondary prevention?
occurs when pathogens are transferred by dust or particles through the air.
what is Airborne transmission?
the performance of a intervention item in a controlled environment.
ability to transmit the disease with or without symptoms that normally have an incubation period.
What is Active Carrier?
a habitat where the infectious lives and multiplies.
What is reservoir?
aims to reduce the lasting impacts of a health problem.
what is tertiary prevention?
Occurs when a pathogen spreads from a contaminated source or object to other individuals.
What is common Vehicle transmission?
Objects that are likely to carry infectious bacteria or viruses.
What is fomites?
Can transmit the disease even though the individual is cured from the disease.
What is Convalescent carrier?
This is how a pathogen enters a host.
what is portal of entry?
being involved in changing or preventing a health problem.
what is active primary prevention?
What is Vectorborne Transmission?
Disease from animals which has adapted to transfer to humans.
What is zoonosis?
Can transmit the diseases but symptoms and signs do not show until some time has passed.
What is an Incubation Carrier?
When and how the pathogen leaves the host.
What is portal of exit?
Intervention tactics to help an individual back on track to be able to participate in life.
What is Rehabilitation?