Prevention
Prevention from the onset of a disease or condition
What is Primary Prevention?
A type of transmission that includes skin-to-skin contact
What is Direct Transmission?
Person in the specified population with the disease under investigation
What is a Case?
A carrier that does not currently suffer from the disease
What is a Healthy or Passive Carrier?
The study of health-related issues in a population
What is Epidemiology?
Prevention that usually does not require any action of an individual in order to prevent a disease or condition
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
Transmission through vectors
What is Vector-borne Transmission?
The criteria specific to the disease or condition under investigaton
What is the Case Definition?
A carrier that had the disease and recovered, but can still transmit the disease to other individuals
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
An organism that transmits disease to a host
What is Pathogen?
Works toward limiting or reversing effects of a disease or condition
What is Rehabilitation?
Transmission that does not involve direct contact with the pathogen, but rather through inanimate objects harboring the disease
What is Vehicle-borne Transmission?
Cases that are caused by exposure to the primary case
What is a Secondary Case?
A carrier that transmit the disease during the incubation period of the disease and prior to the actual onset of the disease
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
An organism that transmits a disease from one organism to another
Prevention at a time when the disease or condition has already occurred
What is Secondary Prevention?
Transmission that involves the pathogen to develop and reproduce in its host
What is Biological Transmission?
The first documented case of the disease or condition under investigation
An infected individual who can transmit the disease to others
Inanimate objects that are capable of carrying infectious agents
Prevention that prevents further morbidity of a disease or condition
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Transmission that does not involve the pathogen to develop within the vector
What is Mechanical Transmission?
Case with the same clinical features of the disease, but without any documented lab or epi results
A carrier that only carries the disease in separate periods of time and not continuously
A disease that is transmissible from humans to other animals
What is Zoonosis?