Epidemiology
A field of science that studies health problems within populations.
What is Epidemiology?
Occurs when pathogens are transferred between individuals without a contaminated intermediate person, object or environmental surface.
What is a Direct contact transmission?
Agent or germ, that causes diseases.
What is a pathogen?
Intervening before health effects occur.
What is Primary prevention?
The first disease case in the population.
Something that belongs to a particular people or country.
What is an Endemic?
Transmission over distances greater than one meter.
The habitat in which the agent lives, grows, and multiplies.
What is a reservoir?
Screening to identify diseases in the earliest stages, before the onset of signs and symptoms.
What is secondary prevention?
The first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist.
What is an index case?
An epidemic that is spread over multiple countries or continents.
What is a Pandemic?
Occurs through contaminated materials such as food, clothes, bedding and cooking utensils.
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
The manner in which a pathogen enters a susceptible host.
What is a port of entry?
Managing disease post-diagnosis to slow or stop disease progression.
What is Tertiary prevention?
Persons who become infected and ill once a disease has been introduced into a population and who became infected from contact with the primary case.
What is the secondary case?
A disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population or region.
What is an Epidemic?
Occurs when the agent is carried by an insect or animal to a susceptible host.
What is vector-borne transmission?
The path by which a pathogen leaves it's host.
What is a port of exit?
A person being personally involved.
What is active primary prevention?
An individual of group of individuals who have all of the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition yet has not been diagnosed as having the disease.
What is a suspect case?
An outbreak in which a group of persons are all exposed to an infectious agent or a toxin from the same source.
What is a Common-Source?
The transfer of an infectious agent from a reservoir to a host by suspended air particles, inanimate objects or animate intermediaries.
What is indirect-transmission?
One who harbors a pathogenic organism for a clinically significant time and is able pass the infection to others.
What is an active carrier?
Person that is not actively involved.
What is passive primary prevention?
An instance of a particular disease, injury, or other health conditions that meets selected criteria.