Severity of Disease
Occurring in a scattered or isolated manner
What is Sporadic?
Infectious agent
What is a Pathogen?
The way a infectious goes from one host to another
What is a Mode of Transmission?
Preventing a disease before it happens
What is Primary Prevention?
Belongs to a particular people or population. Constant presence or usual prevalence of a disease.
What is Endemic?
Doorway into a new home
What is the Portal of Entry?
The use of a living organism to transfer the infectious agent
What is vector-borne transmission?
What is Convalescent Carrier?
Requires behavioral change on the part of the individual
What is Active Primary Prevention?
More-than-expected increase in the # of endemic cases, also refers to the appearance of a disease in a new location
What is an Outbreak?
Pathogen leaves the host through...
What is the portal of exit
Transfer disease using a particular object
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
Individuals that are carriers of the disease but have not gotten sick or shown symptoms
What is Healthy Carrier (Passive Carrier)?
Does not require behavioral change on part of the individual
What is Passive Primary Intervention?
Sudden increase in number of cases(over expected number) for a disease within a community, population, or region
What is a reservoir?
Infectious agent does not undergo any physiological changes within vector
What is Mechanical Transmission?
Exposed to and harbors a pathogen, in the beginning stages of the disease
What is Incubatory Carrier?
Aimed at health screening and detection activities used to identify disease
Spread of an endemic over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people
What is a Pandemic?
Shows the process through which infectious disease transmission occurs
What is the Chain of Infection?
Objects such as clothing, utensils, etc. that can harbor and infectious agent
What is a Fomite?
Individual that is exposed to and harbors disease; has the ability to spread in multiple places and intervals
What is Intermittent Carrier?
Limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage
What is Tertiary Prevention?