Disease Concepts
An interruption, cessation, or disorder of body functions, systems, or organs.
What is Disease?
The number of years an individual is likely to live.
What is Life Expectancy?
A subset of items that have been taken from a population.
What is a Sample?
The study of how different diseases occur in human populations and why.
What is Epidemiology?
The study of the distribution and determinants of chronic diseases and conditions.
What is Chronic Disease Epidemiology?
This type of medication contains elements that are toxic to bacteria and used to treat human conditions.
What are Antibiotics?
An epidemiologic and vital statistic term for death.
What is Mortality?
A suggested explanation for an observed phenomenon or a reasoned proposal predicting a possible association among multiple phenomena.
What is a Hypothesis?
COVID-19 is known as a global _______.
A variable associated with an increased probability of experiencing an adverse health outcome.
What is a risk factor?
A disease that is less severe but of continuous duration, lasting over long periods of time.
What is Chronic?
In the United States, deaths are recorded and reported to this department.
An incorrect result due to bias.
An infected person (or animal) may be referenced as this in public health.
What is a carrier?
The area of study on how a chemical substance enters the body and the course it takes.
What is toxicokinetics?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact.
A measure of the relative impact of various health-related states or events on a population.
What are Years of Potential Life Lost?
The study of the causes of disease and their modes of operation.
What is Etiology?
The agent, host, environment, and time make up what in Epidemiology?
A widely used conceptual framework for understanding health behavior.
What is the Health Belief Model?
What is Active Immunity?
Africa and Asia rank highest in this mortality rate.
What is Infant Mortality Rate?
A graphical, pictorial, or paradigm representation of complex sets of events or conditions.
What is a web of causation?
An epidemic that comes from a specific source.
What is a common-source epidemic?
The most common brain tumor in adults.