Public Health Study
The science and art of promoting health and extending life on the population level
What is public health?
A standard set of criteria for diagnosing diseases
What is a case definition?
Inanimate object that may harbor disease
What is Formite?
Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism
What is an active carrier?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens
What is primary prevention?
A collection of individuals that share one or more characteristics
What is population?
First (unattended) person to have disease
What is a primary case?
An invertebrate animal capable of transmitting and infectious agent
What is a Vector?
Individual who harbors a pathogen and who is in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, and is still infectious
What is a convalescent carrier?
Does not require behavior change on part of subject
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
Study of health related states or events in population
What is Epidemiology?
First noticeable case
What is Index Case?
Habitat on which infectious agent lives
What is a Reservoir?
An individual who has been exposed and harbors a pathogen but has not become ill or has shown any symptoms
What is a healthy carrier?
Occurs to reduce progress of disease
What is Secondary Prevention?
Uneven distribution of health in populations
What is Health Disparities?
Persons who have become infected after disease has been introduced to population
What is secondary case?
An animal transmits a disease to a human
What is a Zoonosis?
Individual who has been exposed and harbors. pathogen, is in the beginning stages of the disease and is displaying symptoms, and can transmit the disease
What is an incubatory carrier?
Reduce limitation of disability from disease
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Population above expected given period of time
What is Epidemic?
Three legs of the Epidemiological Triangle for Infectious Disease
What is Environment, Host, Agent?
Bacteria that causes plague
What is Yersiniapestis?
Individual who has been exposed to an harbors a pathogen and who can spread the disease in different places or at different intervals
What is an intermittent carrier?
Any attempt to restore an afflicted person to a useful, productive, and satisfying lifestyle
What is rehabilitation?