History
Created VACCINES for anthrax?
Who is Louis Pasteur?
What type of epi curve rises rapidly?
What is point source?
An epidemic occurring over several countries or continents and affecting a large proportion of the population.
What is Pandemic?
What the study which is less expensive and easier to conduct?
What is a case-control study?
This graph shows the number of cases of disease over time in an outbreak.
What is an epidemic curve?
In 1854, this scientist mapped cholera cases in London and traced the outbreak to the Broad Street pump.
Who is John Snow?
This measure describes the proportion of a population that has a disease at a specific point in time.
What is prevalence?
systematic and ongoing collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data
What is a Surveillance?
This study compares individuals with a disease to those without it to identify risk factors.
What is a case-control study?
This term describes a sudden increase in disease cases above expected levels.
What is an outbreak?
Which scientist who showed that specific microbes caused specific diseases?
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This measure describes the number of new cases of a disease occurring in a population over a given time period.
What is incidence?
An animal that transmits disease but is not the cause of the disease itself
What is a vector?
Which study tracks the effects of exposure?
What is a cohort study?
The first identified case in an outbreak investigation is known as this.
What is the index case (patient zero)?
Who is John Snow?
Graph which rises gradually and might plateau?
What is Continuous source?
Comparison people with and without exposures to see what happens to each.
What is Cohort?
This study measures exposure and disease at a single point in time.
What is a cross-sectional study?
The word which describes how well true negatives are identified?
What is specificity?
What is the purpose of Koch's postulates?
These are criteria designed to establish a causal relationship between a causative microbe and a disease
What is propagated?
an aggregation of cases over a particular period closely grouped in time and space, regardless of whether the number is more than the expected number.
What is Cluster?
What is the study which is not good for results in the long run?
What is cross-sectional study?
What are the four parts which should be included in a case studies?
1. Clinical information about the disease or condition
2. Characteristics of the affected people
3. Location or place
4. Time sequence