Vocabulary
Peak severity of symptoms occurs and subsides within three months.
What are Acute diseases?
Epidemiologists describe disease outbreaks by person, place, and location.
What is False? (person, place, and time)
Viruses, Rickettsiae, Bacteria, Fungi, Protozoa, Metazoa what type of Causative Agents?
What are Biological Agents?
A model to conceptualize the transmission of a communicable disease from its source to a susceptible host
What is a Chain of Infection?
Transfer of disease by a living organism (vector).
What is Vectorborne transmission?
An illness caused by some specific biological agent or its toxic products that can be transmitted from an infected person, animal, or inanimate reservoir to a susceptible host.
What is a Communicable (infectious) disease?
Heart Disease is the 2nd leading cause of death?
What is false? It's the leading cause of death.
Biological, Chemical, or Physical are what type of agents for Disease and Injuries?
What are Causative Agents?
A person or animal that harbors a specific communicable agent in the absence of discernible clinical disease and serves as a potential source of infection to others.
What is a case?
Contaminated materials or objects serve as vehicles.
What is Vehicleborne transmission?
A disease that cannot be transmitted from infected host to susceptible host.
What is a Noncommunicable (noninfectious) disease?
Cancer is the 3rd leading cause of death.
What is false? Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death.
What are Physical Agents?
The name of the infected host.
What is Reservoir?
Multiplication and/or developmental changes of the disease agent occur in the vector before transmission occurs.
What is Biological transmission?
Symptoms continue longer than three months, and possibly for one’s life.
What are Chronic Diseases?
What is True?
Pesticides, Food additives, Pharmacologic, Industrial chemicals, Air Pollutants, Cigarette Smoke
What are Chemical Agents?
A communicable disease transmissible under natural conditions from vertebrate animals to humans.
What is Zoonosis?
Dissemination of microbial aerosols to a suitable portal of entry.
What is Airborne transmission?
Often diseases are classified by ____ or ____ system; another method is causative agent.
What is Organ?
The 5th leading cause of death are Strokes.
What is True?
CHD, the number one killer of Americans, stands for?
Coronary Heart Disease
A person who is sick with a disease.
What is a case?
An inanimate material or object that can serve as a source of infection.
What is Vehicle?