Epidemiology General
The study of distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in a specified population.
What is Epidemiology
The process of screening to identify diseases in the earliest stages before the onset of signs and symptoms is called
What is secondary prevention?
In 1980s, this unknown transmission of HIV led to this commonly used practice?
What are the universal precautions?
Any Disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate or invertebrate animals to humans and vice-versa.
What is Zoonoses?
Total deaths from any cause in a single year within a population (Average total population for the same year).
What is mortality rate?
The number of people with a disease in a population at one point of time divided by the total in the given population at the same point in time.
What is prevalence?
The process in Epidemiology focuses on people that are already infected.
What is Tertiary prevention?
The is the level of prevention that may include palliative care or rehab?
What is tertiary prevention?
This involves contact between a person with the disease and another person.
What is direct transmission?
Those that have recovered from their illness but remain capable of transmitting to others.
What is a convalescent carrier?
What is the term called for diseases that must be reported?
What are reportable diseases?
The total deaths from a specific cause in a year in a population subgroup which is divided by the average total population subgroup for the same year.
What is specific mortality rates?
An infectious disease that spread from human to human also is the person who first brings a disease into a group of people.
What is primary case?
Who, what, when, where, place, person, and time.
What is the epidemiology variables?
A type of transmission in Epidemiology that would be considered a vector or vehicle such as airborne or contaminated water.
What is indirect contact?
This used to illustrate the relationship between the elements of the epidemiology model?
What is a Venn diagram?
Touching, skin to skin contact, and sexual intercourse?
What are the types of direct transmission?
This model contains the elements of the host, agent, and environment.
What is the epidemiology model?
The number of new cases of a disease in a population in a given time.
What is incidence?
Total deaths of infants in a given year in a population/Total number of live births in the same year in a given population
What is infant death rate?
The extent to which an intervention does more good than harm under ideal circumstances.
What is efficacy?
An Epidemic occurring worldwide or over a very large area is called?
What is a pandemic?
What is prevention strategies that do not require action by an individual for protection to happen?
What are passive primary prevention?
A person who harbors a pathogenic organism for a clinically significant time is also able to pass the infection to others.
What is an active carrier?
The transmission occurs when the agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit.
What is the chain of infection?