All about Epidemiology
What kind of field is epidemiology?
A field of science that studies health problems
within populations
What is the first step of the Chain of Infection?
Portal of entry
The ability to produce a desired or intended result is better know as?
Efficacy
What is the term used to to describe restoring someone to health or normal life?
Rehabilitation
Those who have recovered from their illness but remain capable of transmitting to others are?
Convalescent carrier
What causes infectious diseases?
Pathogen
What is the last step of the Chain of Infection?
Portal of exit
Success in doing something can also be known as?
Effectiveness
What is the term used to describe objects or materials which are likely to carry infection?
Fomites
Those who can transmit the agent during the incubation period before clinical illness begins are?
Incubatory carrier
What is the category that falls into Epidemiology and focuses on searching the why's and how's of things?
Analytic Epidemiology
"Preventing disease before it happens" is an example of?
Primary prevention
What is a rapid spread of disease to a large number of patients among a given population termed?
Epidemic
What is a type of epidemic?
Mixed epidemic
One who harbors an infectious organism is known as?
Intermittent carrier
What is the category that falls into Epidemiology and covers time, places, and people?
Descriptive Epidemiology
Secondary prevention
A wide spread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country is termed as?
Pandemic
When a group of people get sick after being exposed to a virus, what would it be classified as?
Common-source
A disease that can be transmitted to humans from animals is?
Zoonosis
What tool do Epidemiologist use to understand infectious disease?
Epidemiology triangle
"Preventing complications of disease" is an example of?
Tertiary prevention
What is the relationship between pandemic and epidemic?
A pandemic is an epidemic that spread over multiple countries.
What is the first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population called?
Index case
Which outbreak results from transmission from one person to another?
Propagated