Epidemiology 101
The study of how disease and other health concerns are distributed in a population, how they start, and how to prevent and control them.
What is epidemiology?
Providing rehabilitation in order to limit disability when damage has already occurred due to disease, injury, or a disorder.
What is tertiary prevention?
Occurs when droplets or dust carry the disease to the host.
What is airborne transmission?
When a disease, illness, or health concern occurs more often than expect in a specified area.
What is an epidemic?
A person who has been diagnosed with a disease or health-related concern.
What is a case?
This answers the questions "why?" and "how?" and uses statistics to evaluate hypotheses.
What is analytic epidemiology?
Utilizing methods of health screening and early detection in order to reduce the chance of disability or death and improve the chance of cure.
What is secondary prevention?
When mosquitos, fleas, ticks, or lice transports the disease to a host.
What is vector-borne transmission?
The normal trend of a disease in a community or group of people.
What is an endemic?
Individual(s) who have not been diagnosed with a suspected disease but show all the signs and symptoms of the disease.
What is a suspect case?
This describes who, what, when, and where in relation to diseases and health concerns in a population.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
What is primary prevention?
The direct transfer of an agent from either a host or reservoir to a potentially exposed host.
What is direct transmission?
An epidemic which effects a greater area of a region, country, or continent.
What is a pandemic?
The first case brought to epidemiologists.
What is an index case?
The ability of prevention and treatment programs to produce and intended result of participants in comparison to non-participants.
What is efficacy?
Requires a change in behavior of the individual.
What is active primary prevention?
When a vector-borne disease transmission uses a host such as a fly, flea, louse, or rat in order to transfer to a host, for a ride or sustenance.
What is mechanical transmission?
An epidemic which is spread from an infected person.
What is propagated epidemic?
The first case in a population.
The ability of prevention and treatment programs to produce benefits for participants.
What is effectiveness?
Does not require a change in behavior of the individual.
What is passive primary prevention?
When an agent is either transferred or carried by an item, organism, means or process to a viable host.
What is indirect transmission?
An epidemic which comes from a specific source.
What is common-source epidemic?
An individual who is infected after contact with the primary case and the disease is present in the population.
What is a secondary case?