BASICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
One of the main sciences of Public Health that studies health-related determinates of the human population.
What is epidemiology?
An object or material that can carry infections and a capable means of transmission.
What is a fomite?
The first step in the levels of prevention. In this phase, you are preventing disease before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
The spread of a disease or illness in a community or region.
What is an epidemic?
A person in a population that has been identified as having a disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is a case?
The characterization of the distribution of health-related states/events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
An invertebrate animal that transmits an infection from one host to another. Also an object with magnitude and a direction (in math).
What is a vector?
Changed behavior on behalf of the individual to prevent a disease or disorder.
What is active primary prevention?
The spread of a disease or illness, attacking a population across an extensive region, country, or continent.
What is a pandemic?
In cases of an epidemic, this is the first disease case in a population.
What is a primary case?
The quantifying factors and causes of health-related states/events.
What is analytic epidemiology?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans.
What is Zoonosis?
No required behavior change to prevent a disease or disorder. Examples can be taking vitamins or drinking fluoridated water
What is passive primary prevention?
A constant presence of a disease or illness in a community. Continuous prevalence.
What is an endemic?
The first disease case brought to epidemiologists' attention.
What is an index case?
The ability of a program to create the desired effect among participants in the program compared to those who do not.
What is efficacy?
A ___ contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism.
What is a carrier?
Health screening and detection activities to identify a disease.
What is secondary prevention?
An infectious-disease epidemic that arises from a specific source.
What is a common-source epidemic?
Individuals who have been infected with a disease after it has been introduced to a population by primary cases.
What is a secondary case?
The ability of the program to produce benefits to those who are offered a program.
What is effectiveness?
The home of an infectious agent where it can grow, multiply and survive.
What is a reservoir?
The process of stopping the progression of a disease or disorder before it worsens. May require excessive care.
What is tertiary prevention?
An infectious-disease epidemic that arises from infections transmitted from person to person.
What is a propagated epidemic?
An individual (or group of individuals) who share symptoms of a disease/condition yet not has not been diagnosed.
What is a suspect case?