Types of Prevention
Behavioral change on the part of the individual to prevent disease before it happens
What is active primary prevention?
The transfer of bacteria or viruses that cause disease on dust particles or small respiratory droplets
What is airborne transmission?
The method why which a disease moves from host to host
What is mode of transmission?
A serious bacterial infection caused by germs in soil that primarily infected animals in the 1870s
What is anthrax?
Something capable of producing an effect; the cause of disease
What is an agent?
Any attempt to restore a useful, productive, and satisfying lifestyle to an individual with disease
What is rehabilitation?
The transfer of bacteria or viruses from a host and/or reservoir to someone susceptible
What is direct transmission?
Someone who is vulnerable to infection by an infectious agent
What is a susceptible host?
A highly infectious disease caused by a virus that causes high fever and pimple eruptions
What is smallpox?
Objects such as clothing, towels, and utensils that can be a reservoir for disease
What is a fomite?
Health screening and detection actions that serve to identify disease before it can develop
What is secondary prevention?
The transfer of infectious agents through an intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a susceptible host.
What is indirect transmission?
The habitat in which an infectious agent lives
What is a reservoir?
An intestinal infection caused by bacteria that releases a toxin to the intestines, increasing water release, epidemic in the 1850s
What is cholera?
The study of disease that arises from many factors
What is multifactorial etiology?
The limiting of disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease has already occurred and caused damage
What is tertiary prevention?
The transfer of infectious agents that cause disease through an object, such as through water or needle use.
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
The method by which an infectious agent enters and exits a reservoir and/or host
What is the portal of exit/entry?
An infectious disease that causes fever and hemorrhaging of the bowels in the early 1900s
What is typhoid fever?
Inoculation with a weak strain of a disease as a method to induce immunity against more virulent strains of the disease
What is variolation?
Prevention of disease without behavioral change on part of the individual
What is passive primary prevention?
The transfer of infectious agents through an arthropod acting as a transmitter.
What is vector-borne transmission?
The system used to describe how an infectious agent moves from a reservoir to a host
What is the chain of infection?
A uterine infection of the placental site secondary to childbirth, epidemic in the 1840s
What is childbed fever?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans
What is zoonosis?