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Where a pathogen leaves the body
What is a portal of exit?
A specific source that is capable of causing increased spread of infection
What is a common-source?
A insect or bug that can transmit germs.
What is a Vector?
The prevention of a disease before it happens
What is Primary Prevention?
How productive a system, process, or thing works.
What is Efficacy?
Where a pathogen enters the body
When an illness occurs and spreads faster than usual.
What is an epidemic?
What is Airborne transmission?
What is Rehabilitation?
When people who got sick from a common source interact with other people and spread the disease
What is a Mixed Epidemic?
How pathogens get around from person to person
What is Mode of Transmission
When an illness is consistent and is continuous throughout a population.
What is an endemic?
When a pathogen spreads through contact with an inanimate object.
When one changes their life in order to prevent illness, a disorder, or condition.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
The description or characterization of the distribution health problem
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
What is the chain of infection?
An illness that reaches large areas such as countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
An inanimate object that harbors pathogens.
What is a Fomite?
The limitation and attempt to delay the progression of a disease, injury, or disorder that has already impacted the host.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
The use of objective data and experimentation to identify causes of health issues
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
Where pathogens habituate to thrive and grow.
What is a Reservoir?
The term that describes a transmission of disease from person-to-person
What is propagation?
When the disease pathogen evolves within a host before going to the next host.
What is biological transmission?
What is Secondary Prevention?
The interrelationship of the host, environment, infectious agent, and time.