Epidemiology types
A field in science that studies health problems that occur throughout many populations
What is epidemiology?
A disease or problem.
What is a case?
Someone who carries the disease or virus and is able to pass it to other people.
What is an active carrier?
The ways pathogens can be transferred from one animal or person to another.
What are modes of transmission?
When a person intervenes before health issues happen.
What is primary prevention?
A disease that belongs only to a certain group of people or population.
What is an endemic?
The first person who brings the disease to a group of people like a school.
What is a primary case?
Someone who still carries the pathogen of the virus or disease and can still pass it to someone, but is not infected themselves.
What is a passive carrier?
When a pathogen is directly transferred from one person to another by direct contact or droplets.
What is direct transmission?
When one is actively protecting themselves from possible health issues such as not smoking tobacco.
What is active primary prevention?
An outbreak that occurs in a specific area or community during a certain time.
What is an epidemic?
Individuals who got the disease through the exposure of a primary case.
What is a secondary case?
Someone who has recovered from the disease or virus but is still able to transmit it to other people.
What is a convalescent carrier?
The transfer of a pathogen through an inanimate objects or air particles.
What is indirect transmission?
Strategies where a person is not required to do something for protection.
What is passive primary prevention?
An outbreak of a disease that spreads across many countries and internationally
What is a pandemic?
Someone who is showing symptoms but has not laboratory results.
What is a suspect case?
A person who is able to transmit the pathogen during their incubation period.
What is an incubatory carrier?
When a pathogen is spread through dust particles or respiratory droplets.
What is airborne transmission?
What is secondary prevention?
Common-source and propagated outbreak characteristics are both included.
What is a mixed epidemic?
The first identified case in a group of cases that are relatable
What is an Index case?
A person who has an infectious organism.
What is an intermittent carrier?
Infections that are passed through humans and animals from animals such as mosquitos and fleas.
What is vector-borne transmission?
When someone is softening the impact of an illness that has long term effects.
What is tertiary prevention?