Definitions
A field that studies health problems within populations
What is Epidemiology?
The first step in the chain of infection.
What is infectious agent?
Diseases that are spread through the flu, cold, or whooping cough.
What is a droplet disease?
Requires behavioral change on the individual's part.
What is active primary prevention?
Impacts the exposure susceptibility and response.
What is the host?
A concept of how the 4 factors that contribute to disease outbreaks relate
What is Epidemiology Triangle?
Humans and possibly monkeys.
What is an example of reservoirs?
Diseases such as TB is transferred.
What is an airborne disease?
No behavioral change.
What is passive primary prevention?
The cause of the disease.
What is an agent?
Time of exposure until signs and symptoms appear.
What is incubation period?
indirect transmission to humans by mosquito vector.
What is mode of transmission?
Epidemic that effects a region, country or continent.
By giving a dead or weakened disease that helps build antibodies to become immune to a disease.
What is a vaccine?
Impacts opportunity for exposure.
What is environment?
Resistance a population has to the invasion and spread of infectious disease.
What is herd immunity?
through skin to blood (through mosquito bite).
What is portals of entry?
A disease from the agent that is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, etc to host
What is an indirect disease?
Remove, eliminate or contain the cause or source of an infection.
The incubation period.
What is time?
A scientific or scholarly investigation in which a researcher systematically collects, analyzes and interprets data.
What is study design?
except for survivors of dengue infection who are immune to subsequent infection from the same serotype, susceptibility is universal.
What is factors in host susceptibility?
Diseases by saliva, blood, urine, feces, or etc.
What is a direct disease?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
Control over any one of these will assist in stopping it.
What is outbreak?