Preventions
The first way to prevent a disease
What is primary prevention?
The two general types of transmission
What are direct and indirect?
A person who can harbor a disease long after they've recovered
What is an active carrier?
The first disease case in a population
What is primary case?
How disease is caused
What is an infectious agent?
This requires some sort of behavior change
What is active primary prevention?
The immediate transfer of an infectious agent
What is direct transmission?
An individual who can transmit the disease while harboring it with symptoms
What is an incubatory carrier?
When a person becomes ill after a disease has already been introduced
What is secondary case?
A human/animal that is susceptible to disease(s)
What is a host?
This does not require a behavior change
What is passive primary prevention?
Fleas and ticks of arthropods that participate in this
What is vector-borne transmission?
The individual who harbors and carries diseases but doesn't become ill
What is a healthy or passive carrier?
The way to ensure that cases are consistently diagnosed
What is case definition?
External factors that cause or allow disease transmission
What is the environment?
The blockage of a disability to stop the advancement of it
What is tertiary care?
Takes place within the host but before being transmitted to a new host
What is biological transmission?
An individual who is on the mend but is still infectious
What is a convalescent carrier?
When the disease is brought to the attention of an epidemiologist
What is the index case?
The factor that determines disease lifecycle, incubation period, and duration of the disease
What is time?
An attempt to restore a productive and satisfying lifecycle
What is rehabilitation?
Pathogens such as Cholera are transmitted this way
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
How diseases are spread in different places or different intervals
What is an intermittent carrier?
All the signs point to "YES" but nothing is confirmed
What is suspect case?
The method of communication between the host and the agent
What is the environment?