Basic Terminology
Epidemiology
What is the study of how and why people get sick?
Direct Transmission
What is when pathogens spread by touching direct source?
Case
What is someone who is sick with a disease?
Primary Prevention
What is stopping people from getting sick before it happens ?
Pathogen
What is a tiny cell that causes people to get sick?
Epidemic
What is when a lot of people get sick in one area/community?
Indirect Transmission
What is when pathogens spread through surfaces?
Primary Case
What is the first person who got sick?
Secondary Prevention
What is finding a disease early and treating it?
Fomite
What is an object that carries pathogens?
Pandemic
What is when people all around the world get sick from the same disease?
Vector
What is an animal or insect that spreads a particular disease?
Secondary Case
What is someone who got sick from the first person?
Tertiary Prevention
What is helping patients manage their illness so they do not get worse?
Reservoir
What is the place where pathogens live and grow?
Endemic
What is when a disease is always around in one place
Airborne Transmission
What is when pathogens travel through the air and contaminate you?
Carrier
What is a person who has a certain disease and can spread it even if they do not know they have it?
Active Prevention
What is when someone takes action to prevent getting sick or illness ?
Zoonosis
What is a disease that spreads from animals to people?
Mixed Epidemic
What is when a disease spreads from both a source and between the population?
Vehicle-borne Transmission
What is when pathogens spread through food, water, or things we use daily?
Index Case
What is the first person a doctor finds with the disease in a certain community?
Passive Prevention
What is staying healthy from outside or environmental factor?
Epidemiology Triangle
What is the model that shows how people, pathogens, and the environment all work together to cause disease?