Basics of Epi Life
Rather than the individual, Epidemiology's focus is on the group.
What is Collective Health?
The field of math used in epidemiology.
Statistics
Diseases that occur occasionally or are geographically isolated.
What are sporadic diseases?
The location of infections agents.
What is a reservoir?
What is Dengue hemorrhagic fever?
The latin term for studies performed on animals.
What is In Vivo?
Lower numbers of this math term that indicate a potential cause.
What is the P-value?
A term that describes a disease occurring naturally in a specific population.
What is an endemic?
The entry or exit point for a pathogen.
What is a portal?
HIV, Hep B, and Hep C are all examples of this type of infection.
What are blood borne infections?
Events that often happen together, but do not equally impact health.
What is correlation?
The cause of errors in the design study.
What is bias?
Disease in higher than normal occurrences or in a new geography.
What is an outbreak?
An insect that is a common carrier of a pathogen.
What is a mosquito?
What is air borne?
Events that result in the observation of the study.
What is causation?
The impact of exposure rather than the probability of it occurring.
What is effect size?
The 2019 outbreak in Hawaii was caused by this pathogen.
What is dengue?
Term used to describe the transmission or carrier of the disease to a new host.
What is a vector?
Survivors of Dengue who are immune to this variation of a species.
What is a serotype?
Contributing factors that may appear to be related to the cause but are not.
What are confounders?
The statistical significance threshold.
What is less than or equal to 0.05?
What is required for an epidemic to reach pandemic levels?
What is geographical spread?
The number of the chain link describing how a pathogen spreads in the Chains of Infection.
What is #4?
Flu, Colds, and Whooping cough are all examples of this type of disease.
What are droplet diseases?