Cases
What is a case?
A person who has been diagnosed with a health-related situation.
What is a carrier?
An infected person who can transmit the disease
What is primary prevention?
An effort to prevent the disease from happening
What is a direct transmission?
Direct immediate transfer to the host
What does Epidemiology mean?
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is a primary case?
The first disease case in the population
What is an active carrier?
A person who had been exposed to it for a while
What is an active-primary prevention?
Behavior change to avoid the disease
What is Modes of transmission?
Different ways diseases are transmitted
What does Analytic Epidemiology mean?
When researchers try to find the cause and collect information; the whys and how’s.
What is a secondary case?
A person who has been infected from the primary carrier
What is a healthy carrier
An individual who has been exposed but have not gotten the symptoms
What is the passive primary prevention?
Non-behavioral change to avoid the disease
What is an indirect transmission?
Transmitting without direct human to human contact
What does Descriptive Epidemiology mean?
When researchers try to sum up patterns by looking into the characteristics of person, place, & time
What is a suspect case?
A person who has all the signs of the disease but isn’t diagnosed
What is a convalescent carrier?
An individual in the recovery phase but is still infectious
What is secondary prevention?
Trying to detect disease early on to prevent from it getting terrible.
What is an airborne transmission?
Bacteria in dust particles; when people sneeze, cough, exhale, etc
What does epidemic mean?
When a number of cases rises higher than expected
What is an index case?
The first disease case for an epidemiologist
What is an intermittent carrier?
A person who has been exposed to the pathogens and can potentially transmit it
What is tertiary prevention?
Efforts to lessen the disability
What is a vector-borne transmission?
Transfer of a disease from a vector
What does a pandemic mean?
When the number of cases rises to the point where different countries are affected as well.