Foundations
A field of science that studies health problems within populationsis known as
What is Epidemiology
This disease has spread over multiple countries and continents, forcing people to stay indoors and even try to learn to make bread
What is the Covid-19 Pandemic
The cause of the disease
What is the Agent
The uniterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another
What is Direct Transmission
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens
What is Primary Prevention
A behavior, environmental exposure, or inherent human characteristics that increases the chance of developing an adverse health outcome
What is a risk factor
This -demic is a disease that has a constant low level presence in a population within the confines of a geographic region
What is an Endemic
A human or animal that is susceptible to the disease
What is the Host
When droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection
What is Airborne Transmission
The requirement of behavior change in the individual
What is Active Primary Prevention
The ability of a program to produce a desired effect among those who participate in the program compared to those who do not
What is Efficacy
This arises from infections transmitted from one infected person to another
What is Propagated Epidemic
Any virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite
What is a Pathogen
An invertebrate animal that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another
What is a Vector
The health screening and detection activities used to identify disease
What is Secondary Prevention
The characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events
What is Descriptive Epidemiology
When victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to-person contact with others and spread the disease
What is Mixed Epidemic
An individual who has all the signs and symptom of a disease or condition but has not been diagnosed as having the disease
What is a Suspect Case
An indivual who harbors a pathogen and who, although is in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still infectious
What is a Convalescent carrier
Any attempt to restore an afflicted person to a useful, productive, and satisfying lifestyle
What is Rehabilitation
This study involves finding and quanitfying associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying causes of health-related states or events
What is Analytic Epidemiology
This 1995 film gave the world a glance at how an endemic can quickly become an epidemic if a virus/disease is not quickly controlled
What is Outbreak
This is found by looking at several variables that are effective measures of illness concerns that require hospitalization
What is Case Severity
When the pathogen undergoes changes as part of its life cycle while within the host/vector and before being transmitted to the new host
What is Biological Transmission
The limiting of any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage
What is Tertiary Prevention