Epidemiology
Is the field of science that studies health problems within populations.
What is epidemiology?
A person in a population who has been identified to have a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is a case?
Is the occurrence of cases of an illness in a community.
What is epidemic?
Any virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite.
What is a pathogen?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
Characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
The first disease case in a population.
What is a primary case?
When victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to-person contact with others and spread the disease.
What is mixed epidemic?
An inanimate object that can harbor an infectious agent.
What is a fomite?
Behavioral change in an individual.
What is active primary prevention?
Finds associations, tests hypotheses, and identifies causes of health-related states or events.
What is analytic epidemiology?
A person who is infected as a result of contact with the primary case.
What is a secondary case?
An epidemic that affects a population of a large region.
What is pandemic?
An invertebrate animal (flye, tick, mosquito) that can carry an infectious agent.
What is a vector?
No requirement for behavioral change in an individual.
What is passive primary prevention?
The ability of a program to produce a desired effect for participants in it compared to non-participants.
What is efficacy?
The first disease case brought to the attention of an epidemiologist.
What is an index case?
The ongoing presence of a disease in a small region.
What is endemic?
A living space for an infectious agent.
What is a reservoir?
Use of health screening and detection methods to identify disease.
What is secondary prevention?
The ability of a program to produce benefits for the participants involved.
What is effectiveness?
An individual or group exhibiting all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but has not been diagnosed.
What is a suspect case?
Occurs from infections transmitted from one infected person to another.
What is propagated epidemic?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals.
What is zoonosis?
Rehabilitation for diseases, disorders, or disabilities.
What is tertiary prevention?