Epidemiology
A subfield of science in Public Health that studies health problems within populations.
The occurrence of case of an illnesses, specific health-related behavior, or health-related event.
What is Epidemic?
A person who was identified having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is a Case?
A non-living object that can harbor an infectious agent.
What is a Fomite/Vehicle?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it starts
What is Primary Prevention?
The ability of a program to produce benefits to those who are offered the program
What is Effectiveness?
An epidemic that affects or attacks the population of a region, country, or continent.
What is Pandemic
The first disease case in a population.
What is a Primary Case?
The habitat where an infectious agent lives, grows, or multiplies.
What is a Reservoir?
Behavior changes in an individual before disease starts.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Finding, quantifying associations, testing hypothesis, and identifying causes of health problems
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
An ongoing, usual, or constant presence of disease in communities.
What is Endemic?
A person who becomes infected from a primary case.
What is a Secondary Case?
An invertebrate that transmits infection by spreading the infectious agent from one host to another.
What is a Vector?
Prevention that does not require individual behavior change.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
The ability of a program to produce a desired effect among those who participate in a program vs. those who didn’t
What is Efficacy?
An epidemic that arises from infections transmitted from one infected person to another.
What is a Propagated Epidemic?
An undiagnosed person or group of individuals who have the signs and symptoms of a disease.
What is a Suspect Case?
An organism or living person that contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism.
What is a Carrier?
Detecting/identifying a disease early before it is diagnosed.
What is Secondary Prevention?
The characterization of the distribution of health problems
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
When victims of a common source epidemic have person-to-person contact and spread disease
What is a Mixed Epidemic?
The first disease case brought to the attention of an epidemiologist.
What is an Index Case?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can transmit disease to humans through direct contact, fomite, or vector.
What is Zoonosis?
Any attempt to restore a person with a health problem to a normal lifestyle.
What is Rehabilitation?