Key Terms
Define descriptive epidemiology
What is the characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events?
Clothing, door handles, and utensils hold bacteria in a hospital setting. They are examples of
What is a formite?
Preventing a disease before it happens
What is primary prevention?
This organic component helped curve beriberi
What is a vitamin?
The person associated with the atomic theory
Who is Hippocrates?
Smoking is a _____ for heart disease and cancer.
What is a risk factor?
Another name for a tick
What is a vector?
This disease caused the most deaths in America in 2000 and 2016
What is heart disease?
The end of this major war led to an increase in lung cancer
This epidemiologist focused on the spread of disease in the military
Who is James Lind?
The epidemic that affects a large population of people
What is a pandemic?
When a person is sick and recovering they're a
What is a convalescent carrier?
An attempt to restore a conflicted person
What is rehabilitation?
The terms epidemic and endemic were introduced by
Who is Hippocrates?
One of the most important contributors to epidemiology, ____ worked with the British Royal Family and studied cholera.
Who is John Snow?
An infectious disease defined by diarrhea, collapsing, and dehydration
What is cholera?
Getting a pathogen while swimming in a lake, river, or pool is due to
What is a vehicle-borne transmission?
In this prevention, behavior change is NOT required
What is passive primary prevention?
In 1879 the book titled ______ was the first major book on public health
What is Hygiene and Public Health?
The scientist that determined anthrax was brought back to land by earthworms
Who is Louis Pasteur?
The bacterial infection caused by bacillus anthracis
What is anthrax?
A person who can spread disease in different places and intervals
Who is an intermittent carrier?
In 2016, self-harm led to ___ percent of deaths in America
How much is 1.6%
Janet Lane-Claypon was a huge advocate of _____ because it helped babies gain weight and lowered the risk of breast cancer
What is breastfeeding?
This was the first scientist to develop life expectancy tables
Who is John Graunt?