In the Beginning
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in a human population.
What is epidemiology?
The occurrence of of cases of an illness, specific health-related events.
What is epidemic?
A person in a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury or condition.
What is a case?
An inanimate object capable of being a means of transmission.
What is a fomite?
The uninterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another.
What is direct transmission?
Characterization of the distribution of health related states or events.
What is Descriptive epidemiology?
A epidemic that affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country or continent.
What is a Pandemic?
The first one brought to the attention of the epidemiologist.
What is index case?
Invertebrate that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another.
What is a vector?
Droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection.
What is airborne transmission?
Finding and quantifying associations , testing hypotheses, and identifying causes of health related states or events.
What is analytic epidemiology?
Am ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease.
What is a Endemic?
Any virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite can be labeled as this.
What is a pathogen?
The habitat in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, and multiplies.
What is a reservoir?
Type of transmission that occurs when a arthropod conveys the infectious agent.
What is vector borne?
A behavior, environmental exposure or inherent characteristic that increases the chance of developing an adverse health outcome.
What is a risk factor?
The ability of a program to produce a desired effect among those who are participate in the program compared to those who are not?
What is Efficacy?
The cause of the disease.
What is an agent?
A nonliving intermediary such as a clothing, food, or water that conveys the infectious agent from its reservoir to a host.
What is a vehicle?
Type of transmission that involves an inanimate object that conveys an infectious agent to a host.
What is vehicle-borne?
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What is Epidemiology?
This epidemic arises from specific source.
What is Common Source?
The incubation period, life expectancy of the host or the pathogen.
What is time?
Contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism.
What is a carrier?
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?