Basics to Epidemiology
What is a case?
Case is a reported person that has been diagnosed with a disease
What is direct transmission?
Direct transmission is the transmitted disease from a carrier to a susceptible host
What is Primary prevention?
Primary prevention is preventing a disease before it happens
What is case definition?
A set of criteria is used to help classify a person with a specific disease
What is reservoir?
Reservoir is where an agent typically lives, grows, and mutiplies.
What is a carrier?
A carrier is an infected person or animal that can pass on an infectious bacteria or disease-causing others to get sick.
What is airborne transmission?
Airborne transmission is tiny particles that are in the air/ travel through currents that can survive for a long time outside the body
What is active primary prevention?
What is primary case?
The primary case is the first disease case in the population.
What is vector?
Vector is an invertebrae animal that is capable of transmitting a disease
What is pathogen?
Pathogen is bacteria, fungi, mold, or parasites with chances of producing disease.
What is vector-borne transmission?
Vector-borne transmission is the transmitted disease from bites of an insect such as mosquitoes, ticks, etc.
What is secondary prevention?
Secondary prevention is aiming to block disease or an injury from developing into an impairment or disability
What is secondary case?
A secondary case is a person who was infected with a disease through contact with the primary case.
What is fomite?
Fomite is inanimate object like clothes or utensils that can transmit a disease
What is efficacy?
Efficacy is seeing the effect between those who were tested and those who weren't.
What is mechanical transmission?
Mechanical transmission is the spread of a disease through a host like rats as a physical transfer process.
What is rehabilitation?
Rehabilitation is an attempt to restore a person to a useful, productive, and satisfying lifestyle
What is suspect case?
The suspect case is an individual with the symptoms of a disease but has not been diagnosed
What is vehicle?
A vehicle is inanimate object that can pass infectious disease
What is epidemiology?
Epidemiology is the field of science that studies health problems in populations.
What is biological transmission?
Biological transmission is the changes and or undergoing reproduction of a pathogen inside the vector before spreading to a susceptible host
Tertiary prevention is aiming to block a disease or disorder from requiring excessive care
What is index case?
Index case is the first case that has been brought to the attention of an epidemiologist.
What is zoonosis?
Zoonosis is vertebrae animals like rabbits that are capable of transmitting disease like rabies