Miscellaneous
This refers to all new cases of a disease or health condition appearing during a given time.
What is incidence?
This type of prevention refers to screening in order to identify diseases in the earliest stages. An example would be a mammogram.
What is secondary prevention?
This factor of the triangle refers to all external factors surrounding the host that might influence vulnerability or resistance.
What is environment?
When a disease or infectious agent is continually found in a particular area or population.
What is endemic?
This is referred to investigations that seek to observe and describe patterns of health-related conditions that occur naturally in a population. It suggests hypotheses.
What is descriptive epidemiology
Refers to the relative death rate, or the sum of deaths in a given population at a given time.
What is mortality rate?
This type of primary prevention requires some sort of behavioral change on the part of the individual.
What is active prevention?
This factor of the triangle deals with the interaction of the host, agent, and environment.
What is disease/health condition?
This refers to greater-than-anticipated increase in the number of endemic cases. If it is not quickly controlled, it can become an epidemic.
What is an outbreak?
In this type, the investigator controls or changes the factors suspected of causing the health condition under study and then observes what happens to the health state. Must be approved by an Institutional Review Board.
What is experimental epidemiology?
This refers to all of the people with a particular health condition existing in a given population at a given point in time.
What is prevalence?
This type of prevention refers to intervention before health effects occur.
What is primary prevention?
This model of disease causation consists of three factors involved in the development of infectious diseases.
What is the Epidemiologic Triangle?
Refers to a disease occurrence that clearly exceeds the normal or expected frequency in a community or region.
What is epidemics?
What is analytic epidemiology?
This refers to the relative incidence of disease in a population, the ratio of the number of sick individuals to the total population.
What is morbidity rate?
This type of prevention refers to managing disease post diagnosis to slow or stop disease progression. Chemotherapy would be an example.
What is tertiary prevention?
This factor of the triangle impacts exposure susceptibility and response.
What is host?
WHO states this is the difference between pandemics, epidemics, and endemics.
What is disease's rate of spread?
This study describes patterns of occurrence. It looks at factors from the same point in time and in the same population.
What are prevalence studies?
Mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks are all examples of carriers for this type of infectious agent.
What is a vector?
This type of primary prevention requires no voluntary effort.
What is passive prevention?
This factor of the triangle is referred to as the cause.
What is infectious agent?
When an epidemic is worldwide in distribution.
What is pandemic?
This descriptive study identifies cases and controls, then goes back to review existing data.
What is the retrospective study?