Epidemiology Triangle
Mold, parasites, bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
What are agents of infectious disease?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
In regards to the chain of infection, this is where disease transmission begins.
What is at the reservoir?
The father of medicine who introduced words like “epidemic” and “endemic”.
Who is Hippocrates?
Diseases or disorders transmitted genetically by a parent to the embryo.
What is hereditary disease?
Someone or something that a pathogen can live on and may or may not develop the disease.
What is a host?
The progression of a condition caused by disease is blocked.
What is tertiary prevention?
Person to person contact.
What is direct transmission?
Developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Present at birth, but not transmitted through the genes (e.g. Rubella).
What is congenital disease?
External factors, such as temperature, housing, and humidity, that influence the opportunity for disease transmission.
What is the environment?
Identifying diseases through the use of health screenings and detection activities.
What is secondary prevention?
Transmitting an infectious agent through an object such as a door handle.
What is a fomite?
Made the crucial observation that milkmaids did not get smallpox, but did get cowpox.
Who is Benjamin Jesty?
The invasion of the body by microorganisms (e.g. measles, chickenpox, mumps).
What is infectious disease?
Used to gauge the relationship between the severity of disease with how long an individual is infected and the duration before recovery.
What is time?
Behavioral change at the individual level is required.
What is active primary prevention?
A disease or infection that has been transmitted between a vertebrate animal and human by natural means.
What is zoonosis?
Conducted an experimental study that showed how lemons and oranges were protective against scurvy.
Who is James Lind?
Hookworm, Cholera, and Salmonellosis.
What are examples of intestinal discharge disease?
Allows the agent and host to interact.
What is the environment?
The component of tertiary prevention in which attempts to restore an individual's lifestyle to what it was prior to the disease.
What is rehabilitation?
The pathogen is carried to the host through dust particles.
What is airborne transmission?
Promoted the idea that some diseases, especially chronic diseases can have a multifactorial etiology
Who is William Farr?
The time between inoculation and when the first signs of disease appear.
What is the incubation period?