Basic Definitions
The field of science that studies health problems within populations.
What is epidemiology?
Anything that contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism.
What is a carrier?
Preventing a disease before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
The transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another through physical contact.
What is a direct transmission?
Known as the Father of Epidemiology.
Who is John Snow?
An epidemic that affects a population of an extensive region.
What is a pandemic?
Within a community, cases of an illness becomes excessive of the normal expectency.
What is an epidemic?
Identifying a disease in the first stage through health screening and detection activities.
What is secondary prevention?
The transfer of an agent through a process, organism, or object like food.
What is indirect transmission?
Known as "Lady with the Lamp."
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The model shows the interaction between the agent, host, and environment.
What is the epidemiology triangle?
The habitat, living or nonliving, in which an infectious agent lives, grows, and multiplies.
What is reservior?
Providing rehabilitation before the disease worsens the individual.
What is tertiary prevention?
The transfer of disease from droplets or dust particles which is carrying the pathogen to the host.
What is an airborne transmission?
Invented a vaccination for smallpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
Characterizing the outbreak of an infection, such as population that are affected and the region with high or low cases.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
Researching the causes and effects of an infection, such as testing a hypothesis.
What is analytic epidemiology?
An individual must change their behavior to prevent a disease.
What is active primary prevention?
An antropod, like a mosquito, being responsible for transmitting the pathogen to the host.
What is vector-borne transmission?
A cook who had been responsible for around 51 cases of typhoid fever.
Who is Mary Mallon?
An ongoing presence of an infection among a population.
What is an endemic?
The model shows the process of the transmission of disease which includes the following: infectious agent, reservior, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, and susceptible host.
What is the chain of infection?
Not needing to change one's behavior in order to prevent getting a disease.
What is passive primary prevention?
The transfer of disease from an inanimate object to the host, like swimming in a pool.
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
The first epidemiologist that introduced the terms of epidemic and endemic.
Who is Hippocrates?