Foundations in Epidemiology
This plays an important role in meeting public health objectives
What is Epidemiologic information
This aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs
What is Primary Prevention
This person led a team of physicians to discover that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquito's rather then by direct contact
Who is Walter Reed
This is an object such as a piece of clothing, a door handle, or a utensil that can harbor an infectious agent and is capable of being a means of transmission
What is Fomite
What is the cause of the disease
What is the agent
The study of distribution and determent of health-related states or events
What is Epidemiology
What are the three methods of primary prevention
What are health promotion, health education, and health protection
He was known for pasteurization microbial fermentation
Who is Louis Pasteur
This is an invertebrate animal that transmits infections by conveying that infectious agent from one host to another
What is a vector
What is a human or an animal that is susceptible to the disease
What is the host
This involves characterization of the distribution of health-related states or event
What is Descriptive Epidemiology
What requires behavioral change on the individuals part
What is active primary prevention
What French Physician won the the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1907 for parasitic protozoans?
Who is Alphonse Laveran
This contains, spreads, or harbors and infectious organism
What is a Carrier
This includes surrounding and conditions external to the human or animal that causes or allows disease transmission
What is the Environment
This involves finding and quantifying associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying cause of health-related states or events
What is Analytic Epidemiology
What are some examples of passive primary prevention
What is exercise and diet
What English chemist found the discovery structure of DNA double helix?
Who is Rosalind Franklin
This is an infectous organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact
What is a Zoonosis
This represents the incubation period or life expectancy
What is Time
This is refered to as a behavior, environmenatal exposure, or inherted human chacraristic that is associated with an important health condition
What is a risk factor
This is aimed at the health screening and detection activities used to identify diseases
What is Secondary Prevention
What English Physician is considered the one of the founders of Modern Epidemiology of the 18th Century
Who is John Snow
Daily Double: What five type of carriers have been identified by the public health and medical fields
What is Active, Convalescent, Healthy, Incubatory, and Intermittent Carrier
What are capable of conveying disease-causing organisms to human or animal host
What is a Mosquito