INTRODUCTION
The study of health problems within a population and with that study how to prevent and control said health problems.
What is Epidemiology?
The direct and immediate transfer of an agent from a host to a susceptible host.
What is Direct Transmission?
The objects that can harbor a disease agent and can transfer it (clothing, towels, utensils).
What is Formite?
Doesn’t require behavior change on the individual level to prevent a disease or illness from occurring.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
The process linked by an infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry and susceptible host.
What is Chain of Infection?
The finding, testing of hypothesis and identifying the causes of health problems
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
The disease the results when an agent is transferred by an intermediate means to a suspectable host.
What is Indirect Transmission?
The invertebrate animal that is capable of transmitting an infectious agent to humans.
What is a Vector?
The behavior changes at the individual level that prevents a disease/disorder before it occurs.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
The constant presence of a disease within a community.
What is Endemic?
The characterization of the distribution of health problems
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
The transfer of a bacteria/virus on dust particles or on small respiratory droplets that travel through the air through sneeze, cough, laugh or exhalation. Enter the upper and lower respiratory tract.
What is Airborne Transmission?
The inanimate intermediate involved in the transmission of a pathogen from an infected person to a susceptible host.
What is a Vehicle?
The activities aimed at health screening and early detection in order to improve the likelihood of a cure and reduce the chance of disability or death.
What is Secondary Prevention?
When victims of a common sourced epidemic have contact with others and spread the disease.
What is Mixed Epidemic?
The ability of a program to produce the desired outcome among those who participated compared to those who didn’t.
What is Efficacy?
The vector borne disease transmission processes that occurs when the pathogen uses a host as a mechanism for transmission.
What is Mechanical Transmission?
The individual that contains a pathogen and is still infectious, even though they’re in the recovery phase.
the limiting of any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
The standard set of criteria applied to ensure that cases are diagnosed consistency.
What is Case Definition?
The increase of the number of cases of a disease occurs above the normal expected among a given time and place.
What is Epidemic?
The transfer of a pathogen to a susceptible host by a vector.
What is Biological Transmission?
The infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, fomite, or vector.
What is Zoonosis?
The attempt to restore the affected person to a useful, productive, and satisfying lifestyle and to provide the highest quality of life possible under their current circumstances.
What is Rehabilitation?
The individual exposed to and who harbors a pathogen that is amongst the beginning states of the disease and are symptomatic and are infectious.
What is Intermittent Carrier?