Types of Preventions
Types of Cases
Carriers
Outbreak terms
Types of Transmission
100

The effort to prevent a disease

What is primary prevention?

100

The first case in a population

What is primary case?

100

An infected person or animal

What is a carrier?

100

Epidemics cause by a certain source

What is a common source?

100

The first case in a population

What is a primary case?

200

To change behavior in order to prevent a disease (ex. washing hands frequently)

What is active primary prevention?

200

People who have signs and symptoms of a disease but have not been diagnosed

What is suspect case?

200

Someone who has been exposed to a disease

What is an active carrier?

200

An epidemic that attacks a population

What is a pandemic?

200

One who becomes infected from the contact of someone who already carriers the disease

What is a secondary case?

300

Early detection of a disease that could help find a cure

What is secondary prevention?

300

People who have become infected from the contact of those who already carry the disease

What is secondary case?

300

One who has been exposed to disease but is asymptomatic

What is a healthy carrier?

300

An ongoing disease within a community

What is an endemic?

300

One who has the signs and symptoms of a disease but have not been diagnosed

What is a suspect case?

400

Efforts to limit disability from a disease or infection

What is tertiary prevention?

400

The first case brought to the attention of an epidemiologist

What is index case?

400

One who is in the early stages of infection and can transmit the disease

What is an incubatory carrier?

400

An increase of cases that are more than what is expected

What is an epidemic?

400

The first case brought to the attention of an epidemiologist

What is an index case?

500

Taking better care of oneself to prevent a disease (ex. eating healthier or taking vitamins)

What is passive primary prevention?

500

A standard that makes sure cases are being diagnosed consistently

What is case definition?

500

One who is still infectious while in the recovery stages

What is a convalescent carrier?

500

When disease spreads due to in person contact with those who carry the same disease

What is a mixed epidemic?

500

A standard that ensures cases are being diagnosed consistently

What is a case definition?

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