Impacting Community
An epidemic affecting or attacking a large population such as country or around the world.
What is a Pandemic?
Spreading of a disease due to person-to-person contact from a common source.
What is Mixed Epidemic?
The infected host that contains, harbors, and spreads an infection.
What is a Carrier?
What is a Reservoir?
A strategy to prevent an illness or injury through education.
What is Primary Prevention?
A person who is showing signs and symptoms but has not been diagnosed.
What is a Suspect Case?
Finding out the How and Why from the involved associates to predetermine a hypothesis.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
A mosquito can transmit a disease to another animal or human.
What is a Vector?
The non-living median transferring an infection to a host.
What is a Vehicle?
Early treatment to reduce severity of an illness or injury.
What is Secondary Prevention?
Occurrence of cases in excess in a community or region.
What is an Epidemic?
Involves descriptions such as patterns, characterization, place, people, and time from observations and populations.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
A dog can transmit the disease to another animal or human.
What is Zoonosis?
Transferring a pathogen by sneezing or coughing.
What is Airborne Transmission?
A person will restore their strengths and improve current state of mind.
What is Rehabilitation?
A person in a population that is now being identified with a disease, having condition or disorder.
What is a Case?
Shows the interaction between host, environment, disease throughout time.
What is the Epidemiology Triangle?
Transferring the disease by needle like vehicle.
When pathogen is carried or transferred by an intermediate item such as a dust or food.
What is Indirect Transmission?
A participant is involved in a program to promote his own behavior change.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
The first disease case known about and brought to an Epidemiologist attention.
What is an Index Case?
A series of steps an infectious agent develops through.
What is Chain of Infection?
Transfer of disease to person by a vector form.
A person that harbors infection, shows symptoms, and can pass on disease.
What is Incubatory Carrier?
Healthcare services and rehabilitation to reduce severity of the illness or injury and improve condition.
What is Tertiary Prevention?