Modes of Transmission
Direct transmission
What is the immediate transfer of a disease from one person directly to another?
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary
What are the three levels of prevention?
Active Carrier
What kind of carrier is someone who has been exposed to a disease and still carries it?
When the transfer of infectious disease occurs
What is the chain of infection?
Host, Time, Environment, Infectious Agent
What are the 4 categories of the Epidemiology triangle?
Indirect transmission
What is the transfer of disease through an item?
Preventing a disease before it even happens
What is primary prevention?
Convalescent carrier
What kind of carrier is someone who carried a disease and has recovered from it but is still infectious?
Also known as the "Germ"
What is infectious agent?
Airborne transmission
What is the transfer of disease that may be from someone sneezing or from dust particles?
Used to identify diseases
What is Secondary prevention?
Healthy carrier
What kind of carrier is someone who was exposed to a disease but doesn't show symptoms.
The disease may be passed through the mouth, nose, eyes, a cut, open wound, etc.
What is the portal of exit?
The "Host"
What impacts the exposure susceptibility and response?
Vector-borne transmission
What is the transfer of disease when the disease is passed through a anthropod?
Blocking the progression of a disease
What is Tertiary prevention?
Incubatory carrier
What kind of carrier is someone who had caught the disease, carries it, still shows symptoms, and may transfer that disease to someone else?
The next person that a disease may infect
What is a susceptible host?
The "Environment"
What impacts opportunity for exposure?
Vehicle-borne transmission
What is the transfer of disease when food or water is a mode of disease transportation?
Trying to restore a infected person
What is rehabilitation?
Intermittent carrier
What kind of carrier is someone who was exposed to a disease and carries it and may transfer the disease to many places.
The place where a disease infects
What is resevoir?
Helps us understand disease causation.
What is the Epidemiology triangle?