Epidemiology Case Types
This case type is the First incident of a disease in a population.
What is a Primary Case?
This disease transmission type causes the pathogen to undergo changes within the host before being transmitted.
What is Biological transmission?
A type of carrier that has been exposed to and harbors a disease causing pathogen for some time.
What is an active carrier?
This type of prevention focuses on education, promotion and protection.
What is Primary Prevention?
This Mortality rate period is from birth through 27 days of life.
What is Neonatal?
This case type is one in which a person has all the signs and symptoms but has not a formal diagnosis.
What is a Suspect case?
This Disease transmission type is transfered/transmitted simply from one non infected host to a susceptible host.
What is Mechanical Transmission?
A type of carrier who has been exposed and harbors a pathogen but has never shown any symptoms or illness.
What is a Healthy carrier?
This type of primary prevention requires a behavioral change of some time.
What is Active?
This mortality rate type involves newborns dying between 28 days to 364 days of life.
What is Postneonatal?
This case type has a specific person identified with a new condition, disease or disorder.
What is a case?
This Disease transmission type is transmitted by arthopods or animals
What is vector-borne transmission?
A carrier who harbors a pathogen in recovery phase but is still contagious and or infectious
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
This type of primary prevention does not require a behavioral change?
What is passive?
This Mortality rate type refers to the death of a fetus or neonate?
What is Perinatal?
A case in which people fall ill after the initial disease has been introduced.
What is a secondary case?
This disease transmission type transmits disease by needle sharing, or in lakes or pools
What is Vehicle-borne transmission?
A type of carrier who is in the beginning stages of displaying signs and symptoms and still contagious.
What is an Incubatory carrier?
This type of prevention focuses on early detection and screenings.
What is secondary?
This mortality type is known as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy not from accidental or incidental causes.
What is maternal?
This case is the first one presented to an epidemiologist.
What is an Index Case?
This disease transmission type is transmitted by droplets when a person sneezes or coughs.
What is Airborne Transmission?
A type of carrier who can spread diseases in different places and at different intervals.
What is an intermittent carrier?
This type of prevention provides rehabilitation for a disease or injury that has already occurred.
What is Tertiary?
This mortality rate type is the proportion of people with particular cases or conditions who die from that condition.
What is Case Fatality?