Epidemiology Random
Public health assessment
Disease Transmission
Prevention
Historic Developments in Epidemiology
100
Characterization of distribution of health related states or events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
100
Diseases like influenza that are constantly present in a community
What is an endemic?
100
Direct immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another. Examples include physical contact.
What is direct transmission?
100
Preventing disease before it happens
What is primary prevention?
100
The father of medicine and the first epidemiologist
Who is Hippocrates?
200
Set criteria ensuring that cases are diagnosed regardless of time or place.
What is case criteria?
200
Occurrence of an illness in excess; typically more than the normal expectancy.
What is an epidemic?
200
Droplets and dust particles carrying pathogen to host. Ex- COVID, Pneumonia
What are examples of diseases that require airborne transmission?
200
Examples include screening and detection services that can prevent disease from progressing or from occurring.
What are some example of secondary prevention?
200
Discovered that hand washing with chlorinated lime water between each patient decreased the spread of Childbed Fever
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
300
What is the epidemiology triangle?
300
Illness attacks a large population of a country or a continent.
When does an epidemic become a pandemic?
300
When pathogen is carried by intermediate organism to the host
What is indirect transmission?
300
Educational services, physical therapy, counseling after an injury or disease
What are some rehabilitation services?
300
Objects such as: clothing, utensils, door handles and stethoscopes that harbor pathogens and serve as means of transmission.
What is a fomite?
400
What is the chain of infection?
400
The ability of a program to lead to desired outcome among participants and its' ability to offer benefits needs to be evaluated before being put to practice.
What do prevention efficacy and effectiveness mean?
400
Arthropod vs. Fomite/food/H20
What is the difference between vector borne transmission and vehicle born transmission?
400
Providing rehabilitation services and attempting to block the progression of an illness or an injury.
What is tertiary prevention?
400
Made a vaccination for small pox after identifying that people who acquired cow pox did not develop small pox.
Who is Benjamin Jesty?
500
Infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans. Ex- Rabies in dogs transferred to humans through bite.
What is zoonosis?
500
When victims of common source epidemic come in contact with others and spread infection.
What is mixed epidemic?
500
Process of pathogen going through changes in life cycle while within host or vector.
What is biological transmission?
500
One requires behavioral change on the part of the individual while the other does not.
What is the difference between active and passive primary prevention?
500
Typhoid Mary led to the infection of 51 people through the food she prepared.
Who is an example of an asymptomatic carrier?