Types of Prevention
The type of prevention aimed at health screening and detection activities to identify disease.
What is secondary prevention?
Requires physical contact between infectious host and susceptible host, and physical transfer of pathogen.
What is direct transmission?
First disease case in population.
What is primary case?
Occurs occasionally or at irregular intervals of time in only a few geographical locations.
What is sporadic?
Contains, spreads, or harbors infectious organisms. Can be person or animal.
What is a carrier?
The type of prevention that requires a behavioral change.
What is active primary prevention?
Transferred or carried by some intermediate item/organism/means/process to a host, resulting in disease. Things like air currents, dust particles, water, food, etc.
What is indirect transmission?
Person infected/ill after a disease was introduced into a population and who is infected as a result of contact with the primary case.
What is secondary case?
Ongoing, usual, constant presence of disease in a community or among a group of people. Said to be this when it continually prevails in a region.
What is endemic?
Exposed to/harbors disease. May have done so for some time and may have recovered from the disease yet still carry it.
What is active carrier?
The type of prevention that prevents disease before ever occurring.
What is primary prevention?
When arthropod conveys the infectious agent.
What is vector-borne transmission?
Individual, or group of individuals, who have all the signs/symptoms of a disease or condition but have not been diagnosed as having the disease or connected to the suspected pathogen.
What is suspect case?
Sudden and unexpected increase in number of cases of a disease.
Exposed to and harbors a pathogen but is asymptomatic. Can be referred to as a subclinical case.
What is healthy/passive carriers?
The type of prevention that does not require behavior change.
Inanimate object conveys infectious agent to host.
Found by looking at several variables that are effective measures of it - like average length of stay in hospital.
What is case severity?
Occurrence of events clearly in excess of normal expectancy in a community or region.
What is epidemic?
Harbors pathogen while still in recovery phase and is still infectious.
What is convalescent carrier?
The type of prevention that aims to block progression of an already occurring disability, condition, or disorder.
What is tertiary prevention?
When a pathogen undergoes changes as part of its life cycle while within host/vector and before being transmitted to a new host.
What is biological transmission?
First disease case brought to attention of epidemiologist.
What is index case?
An epidemic that affects/attacks the population of an extensive region, country, or continent.
What is pandemic?
Exposed to and harbors pathogen. In beginning stages of disease and displays symptoms while being able to transmit.
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Exposed to and harbors a pathogen and can spread disease in diff places or diff intervals.
What is incubatory carrier?
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What is intermittent carrier?