Cases
Break Outs
Transmission
Prevention
Carrier
100

a person in a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition

What is a Case?

100

the occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy in a community or region

What is an Epidemic?

100

immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another

What is Direct Transmission?

100

aimed at the health screening and detection activities used to identify disease

What is Secondary Prevention?


100

contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism

What is a Carrier?

200

In an epidemic, the first disease case in the population

What is Primary Case?

200

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

What is a Pandemic?

200

when droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection

What is Airborne Transmission?

200

does not require behavior change on the part of the individual (e.g., eating vitamin-enriched foods, drinking fluoridated water).

What is Passive Primary Prevention?

200

Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen, is in the beginning stages of the disease, is displaying symptoms, and has the ability to transmit the disease

What is Incubatory Carrier?

300

is an individual who has all of the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition yet has not been diagnosed as having the disease

What is a Suspected Case?

300

types of infectious-disease epidemics arise from a specific source

What is Common-source?

300

fomites, food, or water that acts as a conveyance of infection

What is Vehicle-Borne Transmission?

300

preventing a disease or disorder before it happens

What is Primary Prevention?

300

Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen but has not become ill or shown any of the symptoms of the disease.

What is Healthy or Passive Carrier?

400

The first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist

What is Index Case?
400

occurs when victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to person contact with others and spread the disease, resulting in a propagated outbreak

What is Mixed Epidemic?

400

an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a susceptible host, resulting in disease

What is Indirect Trasmission?

400

requires behavior change on the part of the individual (e.g., begin exercising, stop smoking, reduce dietary fat intake)

What is Active Primary Prevention?

400

an invertebrate animal (e.g., tick, mite, mosquito, bloodsucking fly) that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another

What is a Vector?

500

persons who become infected and ill after a disease has been introduced into a population and who become infected from contact with the primary case

What is Secondary Case?

500

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

What is Endemic?

500

when an arthropod (e.g., mosquito, flea, tick, lice) conveys the infection agent

What is Vector-borne Transmission?

500

consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage

What is Tertiary Prevention?

500

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?

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