Prevention
Not actively involved in lifestyle changes
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
A set of standard criteria for classifying whether a person has a particular disease, syndrome or health condition.
What is a case definition?
Living organisms that can transmit infectious diseases between humans
What is a vector?
Uses who, what, where, when and why to gather information about a disease.
Actively involved in lifestyle changes
What is active primary prevention?
The capability to which something is successful in producing a desired result.
What is effectiveness?
Apply to infectious diseases spread from human to human and refers to the person who first brings a disease into a group of people
What is a primary case?
Inanimate object that can be contaminated with infectious agents and can transfer disease to a new host
What is a fomite?
Uses information gathered from individuals, instead of an aggregate population to study the association between a particular exposure and disease
What is analytic epidemiology?
Controlling of exposure to risk factors
Ability to perform a task to a satisfactory or expected degree
A person who gets a disease from exposure to a primary case
The habitat in which the agent normally lives, grows and multiplies
What is a reservoir?
Corresponds to an epidemic that has spread over multiple countries and usually affects a large number of people.
What is a pandemic?
Application of available measure to detect early departures from health and to introduce appropriate treatment and interventions
Refers to a generally sudden increase, in number of cases of a disease above the normally expected level within a community, population, or region.
A probable case
What is a suspect case?
May passively carry a pathogen
What is a vehicle
Transmission of a disease or virus from one person to another
What is propagated?
Application of measures to reduce or eliminate long-term impairments and disabilities, minimizing suffering caused by existing departures from good health and to promote the patient's adjustments to his/her condition.
This is something that belongs to a particular people or population. Widespread only within a place or population of people
The first patient that indicates the existence of an outbreak
Any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate or invertebrate animals to humans and vice-versa.
What is zoonosis?
What is a common-source?