The Triangle of Epidemiology
The human or animal who can harbor the disease
What is Host?
Individuals who have been exposed to and who harbor a pathogen
What is an active carrier?
This requires physical contact when a disease is transmitted
What is a direct transmission?
The intent of having no illness, injury, or disease due to prevention
What is primary prevention?
The constant presence of a disease within a given region
What is an endemic?
What is an Agent?
Individuals who are in the recovery phase of the course of a disease but are still infectious
What is a Convalescent carrier?
This transmission include factors of tiny liquid droplets which carries the pathogen
What is an airborne transmission?
The influence of changing behavior and actions to prevent illness, injury, or disease
What is active primary prevention?
The unforeseen increase in cases of a disease than what is normally expected within a region
What is an epidemic?
This factor influences the chances for disease exposure
Individuals are in the initial stages and have the ability to transmit the disease
What is a incubatory carrier?
The transmission involves food or water
The intent of improving the quality of life after the illness, injury, or disease has occurred
What is tertiary prevention?
This carries the definition of an epidemic, but refers to the spread of disease in several countries
What is a pandemic?
A vital tool in presenting the interconnected pieces of the four epidemiology elements
What is the Epidemiology Triangle?
Individuals who have been exposed to and harbor a pathogen but are asymptomatic
What is a Healthy carrier?
The transmission consists of an invertebrate animal that acquires a pathogen
What is a vector-borne transmission?
The intent of stopping or slowing the condition through early detection and treatment
What is secondary prevention?
This carries the definition of an epidemic, but refers to a more limited geographic area
What is an outbreak?
The representation of the period of exposure
What is Time?
Individuals who can spread the disease irregularly in places
What is an Intermittent carrier?
The transmission in which the agent develops within the host
What is a biological transmission?
This does not require changing behavior and actions
What is passive primary prevention?
This involves having a common-source epidemic followed by a direct person-to-person transmission
What is a mixed epidemic?