Prevention Convention
A form of prevention that involves a change in behavior within the individual.
What is active primary prevention?
A person or animal who currently possesses a pathogen/infectious agent, and may/may not display signs of infection.
What is a carrier?
A person or animal who possesses a pathogen/infectious agent, but is not yet displaying signs but can still infect others.
What is a carrier?
A rapid increase (often sudden) of an infectious disease that is greater than the expected amount at a given time.
What is an epidemic?
The spread of an infectious disease through small droplets and particles through the air.
What is airborne transmission?
A form of prevention that doesn't involves a change in behavior within the individual and requires no effort.
What is passive primary prevention?
A person or animal who transmits a pathogen/infectious agent through contact/proximity, but does not harbor the pathogens.
What is a healthy/passive carrier?
A health-related event that is tracked/counted as an individual with a disease.
What is a case?
A widespread rapid increase in an infectious disease that affecting multiple continents/countries, or is worldwide.
What is a pandemic?
The spread of an infectious disease from an individual to a host through a living organism.
What is vector-borne transmission?
A form of prevention that focuses on reducing and mitigating long term effects caused by a disease or illness.
What is tertiary prevention?
A person or animal who still possesses a pathogen/infectious agent, after recovering from that disease, and can still infect others.
What is a convalescent carrier?
The six step process where a disease is transferred from individual to individual.
What is a chain of infection?
An infectious disease that is restricted within a geographic area, but is expected and happens is constantly present.
What is an endemic?
The spread of an infectious disease through close proximity or contact.
What is direct transmission?
A form of prevention that involves immediate management of a disease in an individual that has already occurred to prevent further consequences from the disease.
What is secondary prevention?
A person or animal who possesses a pathogen/infectious agent but only spreads the disease during varying intervals.
What is an intermittent carrier?
A type of outbreak where the individuals that became sick in the group were exposed to the same infectious agent.
What is common-source?
A form of epidemiology that compares disease determinants for patterns and relationships.
What is analytic epidemiology?
The spread of an infectious disease involving development or replication after the vector takes in the infectious agent.
What is biological transmission?
A form of prevention that aims to prevent a disease or illness before it occurs.
What is primary prevention?
A person or animal who possesses a pathogen/infectious agent, that will eventually become sick/infected, but can transfer the pathogen before this time.
What is an incubatory carrier?
The criteria for public health professionals to determine whether an individual has a disease.
What is a case definition?
The ability of a treatment or measure to have a meaningful/desired effect on a patient.
What is efficacy?
The spread of an infectious disease without involving development or replication after the vector takes in the infectious agent, only carrying the pathogen to another host.
What is mechanical transmission?