Epidemiology
A form of epidemiology which consists of characterization of the distribution of health-related states, stresses, or events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
An epidemic which affects a large and extensive population.
What is a pandemic?
The first disease case.
The one who contains the infectious agent and may spread it.
This is where a pathogen leaves a reservoir.
What is the portal of exit?
A form of epidemiology which involves finding associations, hypotheses, and identifying health-related states or events.
What is analytic epidemiology?
What is an endemic?
The first disease case brought to the attention of an epidemiologist.
What is the index case?
A nonliving means to convey a bacteria from reservoir to host.
What is a vehicle?
This is where a pathogen enters into a reservoir or host.
What is the portal of entry?
a specific conditions, event, or trait that precedes a health outcome and is necessary for its occurrence.
What is a cause?
An epidemic that has arisen from a specific source is reffered to as this.
What is a common-source epidemic?
One who has been infected by someone else is known as this case.
What is a secondary case?
A habitat which an infectious agent lives and multiplies.
what is a reservoir?
This can be either active or passive and refers to prevention of disease prior to infection.
What is primary prevention?
What is a risk factor?
An epidemic that has arisen from the transmission of infection from one person to another is called this.
What is a propagated epidemic?
A group of individuals who have symptoms but are yet to be diagnosed.
What is a suspect case?
An infectious agent in a vertebrate animal such as rabies.
What is zoonosis?
This form of prevention is aimed at health screening and detection to identify if a patient has a problem early on.
What is secondary prevention?
This includes, the host, agent, and environment.
What is the epidemiologic triangle?
A type of epidemic where a person receives sickness from a water pipe and passes it to their family through sneezing.
What is a mixed epidemic?
This term describes the measure of a case by many variables, one being length of stay at the hospital.
What is case severity?
An item or foreign object that can harbor an infectious agent.
What is a fomite?
The aim of this form of prevention is to block progression of a conditions or disorder.
What is tertiary prevention?