Epidemics, Endemics
and Pandemics
and Pandemics
The continuous presence of a disease within a specific geographical region.
What is an endemic?
A person who has been diagnosed with an illness or disease.
What is a Case?
Requires physical contact between infected host and susceptible person with the transfer of a pathogen.
What is direct transmission?
The three levels of prevention.
What is primary, secondary,and tertiary?
Thanks to these two diseases we have vaccines
What is Smallpox and cowpox?
An epidemic that has begun to attack other countries outside its original location.
What is a pandemic?
The first case brought to an epidemiologist.
What is an index case?
The two general methods of disease transmission.
What is direct and indirect transmission?
The two forms of primary prevention.
What is active and passive prevention?
Name the four great epidemics that have changed epidemiology.
What is cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and typhus?
When illness cases exceed the projected amount within a specific region.
What is an epidemic?
The different levels of diagnosis.
What is suspect, probable, and confirmed?
Can serve as both reservoir and host.
What is human?
The major reason communicable diseases had a huge decline.
What is personal hygiene and public health measures?
The father of medicine and the first epidemiologist.
Who was Hippocrates?
Epidemics that result in faster initial disease transsmission.
What are common- source epidemics?
The different variables that determine case severity
What is length of hospital stay, level of debilitation, and likelihood of recovery?
What is Typhoid Mary?
Secondary prevention goals is.
What is progression of disease?
Received the credit for the advancement, development, and perfection of the microscope.
Who is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek?
Epidemics that transfer host- to-host and have a slower decline.
What are propagated epidemics?
The interaction between host, infectious agent, and environment.
What is the triangle of epidemiology?
The five types of disease carriers.
What is active, convalescent, healthy, incubatory, and intermittent carriers?
Name four components of tertiary prevention.
What is rehabilitation, patient education, aftercare, and health counseling?
Who is John Graunt?