Foundations of Epidemiology
Epidemic
What is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time?
Case
What is a person in a population who has been identified as having a certain disease, disorder, injury, or condition?
What is contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism?
Primary Prevention
What is preventing a disease or disorder before it happens?
What is characterizes distribution of diseases determinants?
Endemic
What is an ongoing presence of disease in a specific region?
Primary Case
What is the first disease case in the population?
Fomite
What is an object that can harbor an infectious agent and is capable of being a means of transmission?
Active Primary Prevention
What is requires behavior change on the part of the individual?
Analytical epidemiology
What is searching for cause and effect or why and how of diseases?
Pandemic
What is an epidemic affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, or continent?
Index Case
Vector
What is an invertebrate animal that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another?
Passive Primary Prevention
What is does not require behavior change on the part of the individual?
Common-Source Epidemic
What is an epidemic from a specific source?
Suspect Case
What is an individual or group of individuals who has all of the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition yet has not been diagnosed?
Reservoir
What is the habitat in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, multiplies, and on which it depends for survival in nature?
Secondary Prevention
What is aimed at the health screening and detection activities used to identify disease?
Risk Factor
What is a behavior, environmental exposure, or inherent human characteristic that is associated with an important health condition?
Propagated Epidemic
What is arises from infections transmitted form one infected person to another?
Pathogen
What is a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease?
Zoonosis
What is an infectious organism in vertebrae animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomite, or a vector?
What is limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage?