Diseases Spread
a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
What is a epidemic?
occurs when pathogens are transferred between individuals without a contaminated intermediate person, object, or environmental surface.
What is direct transmission?
an instance of a disease or problem
What is a case?
aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs.
What is primary prevention?
One who harbors a pathogenic organism for a clinically significant time and is able to pass the infection to others.
What is an active carrier?
(of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
What is a endemic?
s a form of respiratory transmission associated with inhalation of droplet nuclei, i.e.,
What is airborne transmission?
can only apply to infectious diseases that spread from human to human, and refers to the person who first brings a disease into a group of people.
What is a primary case?
is the mitigation of the established disease and involves disease detection, management, and control
What is secondary prevention?
is contaminated with the pathogen and can mechanically transmit it to another host.
What is a passive carrier?
an outbreak of disease prevalent over a whole country or the world.
What is a pandemic?
occurs when pathogens are transferred between individuals via a contaminated intermediate person, object, or environmental surface
What is indirect transmission?
A person who gets a disease from exposure to a person with the disease, or primary case.
What is a secondary case?
What is tertiary prevention?
are those who have recovered from their illness but remain capable of transmitting to others
What is a convalescent carrier?
the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
What is epidemiology?
are infections transmitted by the bite of infected arthropod species, such as mosquitoes, ticks, triatomine bugs, sandflies, and blackflies.
What are vector-borne transmissions?
Individuals meeting a case definition can be categorized as “confirmed,” “probable”.
What is a suspect case?
includes those preventive measures that come before the onset of illness or injury and before the disease process begins.
What is active primary prevention?
One who harbors and spreads an infectious organism during the incubation period of a disease before it becomes clinically evident.
What is an incubatory carrier?
when victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to-person contact with others and spread the disease, further propagating the health problem.
What is a mixed epidemic?
is an indirect transmission process during which the pathogen is indirectly transferred from a reservoir, source or host to another host by inanimate intermediary vehicle objects.
What is a vehicle-borne transmission?
the first patient that indicates the existence of an outbreak.
What is the Index case?
strategies are those that do not require action by an individual for protection to occur; individuals are automatically protected, and even sometimes without their awareness.
What is passive primary prevention?
One who harbors an infectious organism, e.g., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the nasal passages, from time to time but not continuously.
What is an intermittent carrier?