Prevention
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens
What is primary prevention?
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events n human populations and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems
The occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy in a community or region
What is epidemic?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism
What is active carrier?
the direct and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another
What is direct transmission?
Aiming at health screening and detection activities used to identify disease
What is secondary prevention?
Finding and quantifying associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying causes of health-related states or events
What is analytic epidemiology?
What is pandemic?
Individual who harbors a pathogen and who although n the recovery phase of the course of the disease is still infectious
What is convalescent carrier?
Occurs when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a susceptible host resulting in disease
What is indirect transmission?
Limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage
What is tertiary prevention?
Characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events
What is Descriptive epidemiology?
The ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people
What is endemic?
Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen but has not become ill to show any of the symptoms of the disease
What is passive carriers?
When droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection
What is airborne transmission?
Requiring behavior change on the part of the individual
What is active prevention?
The interrelatedness of four epidemiological factors often contributed to an outbreak of disease
What is Epidemiology Triangle?
Arising from a specific source
What is Common source epidemics?
Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen, is in the beginning, stages of the diseases displaying symptoms and has the ability to transmit the disease
What is incubatory carrier?
When an arthropod conveys the infection agent. t does not cause the disease itself but is responsible for transmitting the pathogen to a host
What is vector-borne transmission?
Any attempt to restore an afflicted person to a useful, productive, and satisfying lifestyle
What is rehabilitation?
A person in a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is case?
Infections transmitted from one infected person to another
What is propagated epidemics?
an individual who has been exposed to and harbors pathogen and who can spread the disease in different places or at different intervals
What is intermittent carrier?
related to fomites, food, or water that acts as a conveyance
What is vehicle-borne transmission?