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Preventions
Epidemiology
Cases
Carriers
100

Transfer of a disease to a human by a vector

What is a Vector-borne Transmission

100

The effort to prevent a disease or disorder before it happens

What is Primary Prevention

100

A field of science that studies health problems within populations

What is Epidemilogy

100

The first disease case in the population

What is Primary Case

100

An infected person or animal that contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism

What is Carrier

200

Transfer of disease via a particular vehicle- for example, needle use

What is a Vehicle-borne Transmission

200

Activities aimed at health screening and early detection to improve the likelihood of cure and reduce the chance of disability or death

What is Secondary Prevention

200

Study that involves answering the questions “Why?” and “How?”

What is Analytic Epidemiology

200

A person who has been diagnosed with a health-related state or event.

What is Case

200

Individual who harbors a pathogen and who, although in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still infectious

What is Convalescent Carrier

300

The direct and immediate transfer of an agent from a host/reservoir to a susceptible host

What is a Direct Transmission

300

Behavior changes on the part of the individual that prevents disease or disorder before it happens (e.g., exercising, not smoking, reducing dietary fat intake)

What is Active Primary Prevention

300

An epidemic affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, or continent

What is Pandemic

300

The first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist

What is Index Case

300

Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen and who can spread the disease at different places or intervals

What is Intermittent Carrier

400

Transfer of bacteria or viruses on dust particles or on small respiratory droplets that may become aerosolized when individuals sneeze, cough, laugh, or exhale

What is an Airborne Transmission

400

Does not require behavior change on the part of the individual to prevent a disease or disorder from occurring (e.g., eating, vitamin-enriched foods, drinking fluoridated water)

What is Passive Primary Prevention

400

The ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people

What is Endemic

400

A standard set of criteria applied in a specific situation to ensure that cases are consistently diagnosed, regardless of where or when they were identified and who diagnosed the case

What is Case Definition

400

an individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism (pathogen) and who has done so for sone time, even though he or she may have recovered from the disease

What is Active Carrier

500

Transfer of a pathogen to a susceptible host by a vector, with the pathogen undergoing reproduction, developmental changes, or both while in the vector

What is a Biological Transmission

500

Efforts to limit disability by providing rehabilitation where the disease, injury, or a disorder has already occurred and caused damage

What is Tertiary Prevention

500

Provides a description of the who, what, when, and where aspects of health-related states or events in a population

What is Descriptive Epidemiology

500

An individual (or group) who has all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but has not been diagnosed as having the disease or had the cause of the symptoms connected to a suspected pathogen

What is Suspect Case

500

An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen; who is in the beginning stages of the disease; who is showing symptoms; and who has the ability to transmit the disease

What is Incubatory Carrier

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