Transmission
Disease transmitted from animals to humans.
What is zoonosis?
An infected individual who can transmit a disease.
What is an active carrier?
The study of the distribution, patterns and determinants of health and disease in specific populations.
What is epidemiology?
Preventing disease before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
This is the first identified case for a communicable device.
What is an index case?
Transmission made through mode of physical contact.
What is direct transmission?
Clothes, utensils, and furniture are examples of this type of carrier.
What is a fomite?
Type of epidemiology focused on descriptive components of disease distribution.
This prevention is done to help cope and manage injuries.
What is tertiary prevention?
What is a secondary case?
How a disease causing agent is passed along from reservoir to host.
What are modes of transmission?
This type of carrier can pass along a disease while not being infected themselves.
What is a passive carrier?
The causes and factors that influence the occurrence of disease.
A mammogram is this type of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
This type of case can only be applied in disease transmission from human to human.
A non-living object that carries a disease-causing agent from one host to another.
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
An individual who can transmit a disease before they become sick themselves.
What is an incubatory carrier?
A traditional model depicting the triad of components that contribute to the spread of a disease.
What is an epidemiology triangle?
Vaccines are an example of this type of prevention.
A sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place.
What is an outbreak?
Vehicles, vectors, and the air serve as methods of this type of transmission.
What is indirect transmission?
An individual who has recovered from disease but is still capable of transmitting it on to others.
What is a convalescent carrier?
Type of epidemiology focused on measuring association between exposure and disease; the “why” and “how” of epidemiology.
What is analytic epidemiology?
A rehabilitation program is an example of this prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
This determines if an individual has a case or health event of interest.
What is a case definition?