The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems
What is Epidemiology ?
The first disease case in the population
What is a primary case ?
We are currently experiencing now present day that many people have passed away from due to COVID-19
What is a Pandemic
A 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 ?
How many kinds of transmissions where talked about in the section
Seven
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 ?
People who become infected and ill after a disease has been introduced into a population and who become infected from contact with the primary case
What is Secondary case
An outbreak refers to
What is Epidemic
tick, mite, mosquito, bloodsucking fly are
What is a Vector ?
When a person sneezes, coughs, or talks, spraying microscopic pathogen-carrying droplets into the air that can be breathed in by nearby susceptible hosts
What is Airborne transmission ?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens
What is Primary Prevention ?
An individual who has all of the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition yet has not been diagnosed as having the disease
Whats is a suspect case ?
Malaria spread by mosquitoes is an example of
What is vector-borne transmission
A large lake used as a source of water supply
What is a reservoir ?
Direct and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another
What is Direct Transmission ?
Promotes highest quality of life possible
What is Rehabilitation ?
Any virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite
What is a pathogen ?
Disease is to be what when it continually prevails in a region
Endemic
What is Zoonosis ?
Occurs when a pathogen such as cholera or shigellosis is carried in drinking water, swimming pools, streams, or lakes used for swimming
What is Vehicle-borne transmission ?
Consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage
What is Tertiary Prevention ?
Host , Environment, Infectious Agent are a part of
What is Epidemiology Triangle ?
Victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to person contact with others and spread the disease, resulting in a propagated outbreak
What is mixed epidemic
Rodents or coyotes are often carriers of Bubonic plague what is this an example of
What is a Carrier ?
Two general ____ include direct transmission and indirect transmission
What is modes of disease transmission ?