Prevention
A person in a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition
What is a Case?
The transfer of a disease via a particular vehicle
What is a Vehicle-Borne Transmission?
The practice that promotes health and prevents health problems in a community
What is public health?
The place where pathogens or other disease-causing agents enter the body of a susceptible host
What is the Portal of Entry?
Affect a wide geographic area
What is a pandemic?
The first disease case in the population
What is a Primary Case?
Habitat where agent develops and reproduce
What is a reservoir?
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, mold or parasites capable of producing disease
What is a pathogen?
An organism or substance such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, mold, or parasites that is capable of producing disease
What is a Pathogen?
The constant presence of disease over time in a specific region
Minimizing disability when the condition has caused damage
What is tertiary prevention?
The transfer of a disease to a human by a vector
What is Vector-Borne Disease?
A study that investigates association and identifies causes of a health event
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
An infected person or animal that contains, spreads, or harbors an infection organism
What is a Carrier>
Arises from a specific source
What is a common source epidemic?
The activities aimed at health screening and early detection to improve the likelihood of cure and reduce the chance of disability or death
The process of spreading disease through a physical transfer process
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is Epidemiology?
Animal or human susceptible to disease
What is a host?
Types of epidemic where common source victims spread disease by a person to person contact
What is a mixed epidemic?
The behavior chance on the part of the individual that prevents a disease or disorder before it happens
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Animal disease could be transmitted to humans
What is zoonosis?
Investigation designed to describe that distribution of diseases
What is descriptive epidemiology?
The place where pathogens leave that reservoir and are spread
What is the Portal of Exit?
Transmission of infectious disease from person to person
What is propagated epidemic?