Measure of Epidemiology
Diseases that affect a large number of people but are bound to a certain region or population.
What is an epidemic?
When the transmission of disease occurs through contact or indigestion.
Someone who harbors an infectious disease
What is a carrier?
What is a primary case?
Intervention that is applied before there is evidence of sickness or injury
What is primary prevention?
Diseases that affect a large number of people across regions and countries
What is a pandemic?
Diseases that transmit from person to person
What is propagated?
Someone who carries a disease for a significant time and is able to transmit it to others
What is an active carrier?
The person that was the first document instance of a disease
Interventions that are applied after a disease begins but before symptoms are shown
What is secondary prevention?
Studies the "who, what, where, and when" of health problems.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
Diseases that spread through the exposure of a common element.
What is common-source?
One who carries an infection from time to time but not continuously
What are intermittent carriers?
A person who gets exposed to a disease through another who is infected
What is a secondary case?
Interventions that are applied after disease or an injury has been confirmed
What is tertiary prevention?
Performance of interventions in "Real World" scenarios
What is effectiveness?
A disease that can be transmitted to humans by animals.
What is Zoonosis?
Carriers that transmit the disease before symptoms and illness begin
What are incubatory carriers?
Cases that are not confirmed and are awaiting test results for confirmations. This term is also used in large outbreaks as officials feel that it unnecessary to run a lab test on every patient.
What is a suspect case?
Interventions that require behavioral change such as wearing masks or general lifestyle changes
What is active primary prevention?
Studies the "how's and why's" of health problems.
What is analytical epidemiology?
Objects that are likely to carry diseases
What is a fomite?
People who have recovered from an illness but are still capable of transmitting it to others
What are convalescent carriers?
A set of standards that help determine whether a person has a disease, syndrome, or another health problem
What is a case definition?
Care that someone receives in order to heal damages brought by disease or injury
What is rehabilitation?