Epidemiology
Science that studies the health of a population.
What is epidemiology?
A health issue that spreads throughout a population at a higher rate than normal.
What is epidemic?
The success of a program to achieve the desired affect of participants.
What is efficacy?
What is primary case?
An object that can harbor a pathogen or infectious agent and transmit that infectious agent to a person.
What is fomite?
Epidemiology that characterizes health problems in a population.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
An epidemic that has spread to other populations such as a whole country or multiple countries.
What is pandemic?
The first case epidemiologists are made aware of.
What is index case?
A bug, such as a mosquito, that can carry and spread disease.
What is a vector?
Epidemiology that can test and calculate health problems.
What is analytic epidemiology?
A regularly occurring disease or illness in a certain population.
What is endemic?
A single person with a specific disease or illness.
What is a case?
Infections in the population that come from contact with a primary case.
What is secondary case?
A place that infectious agents can grow and multiply.
What is a reservoir?
Something that must precede a health-related conclusion.
What is cause?
An epidemic that comes from a single source.
What is common-source epidemic?
Specific criteria that must be met for diagnosis.
What is case definition?
A patient who has not been diagnosed, but has symptoms of an illness within the population.
What is a suspect case?
An infectious agents that can be passed from vertebral animals to humans.
What is zoonosis?
An epidemic that is spread by transmission from one person to another.
What is propagated epidemic?
What is a pathogen?
A measure that is used to tell how ill a sick person is.
What is case severity?
Something that carries or spreads an infectious agent.
What is a carrier?