Epidemiology 1
To implement the public health approach you must apply scientific methods.
What is public health core sciences?
Most commonly known as infectious diseases.
What are communicable diseases?
Deals with the methods for collecting, compiling, and presenting health information.
What is public health informatics or What is informatics?
The disease is spread by mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks.
What is insect bites?
Disease occurrence among a population that is in excess of what is expected in a given time and place.
What is an epidemic?
Used to monitor a public health situation.
What is public health surveillance or What is surveillance?
Infectious disease are often spread by person-to-person, mother to unborn child, and droplet spread.
What is direct contact?
It is closely linked to public health policy and studies provide important economic information for decision-makers.
What is prevention effectiveness?
Spread through the air such as the common cold, TB, chickenpox, and mumps.
What is airborne?
Disease or condition present among a population at all times.
What is an endemic?
Enables use to determine where diseases originate, how or why they move through populations, and how we can prevent them.
What is epidemiology?
Infectious diseases can also be spread through the air and other mechanisms.
What is indirect contact?
It is comprised of "3" things: Agent, host, and environment.
What is the epidemiologic triangle?
The infectious disease is spread by coughing and sneezing.
What is droplet spread?
A disease or condition that spreads across regions.
What is a pandemic?
Support public health by performing tests to confirm disease diagnoses.
What are public health laboratories or What is the laboratory?
Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV can be transmitted this way.
What is person-to-person?
It causes the disease to include a bacteria, a toxin, a virus or even something like noise.
What is an agent?
It is caused by germs like bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, or toxins.
What are communicable diseases?
It includes "4" steps data collection, assessment, hypothesis testing, and action.
What is solving health problems?
It includes surveillance, risk factor identification, intervention evaluation, and implementation:
What is a public health approach?
Touching a door know after an infected person.
What is contaminated objects?
Is the human or animal who is being affected by the disease.
What is the host?
It includes washing your hands often, keeping immunizations up to date, and using insect/mosquito repellants.
What is communicable disease prevention?
It includes water, food supply, access to healthcare, poverty, and work conditions.
What is the environment?