Levels of Prevention
preventing a disease before it happens
primary prevention
an inanimate object such as a door handle
fomite
occurs when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item
indirect transmission
a human or animal that is susceptible to the disease
host
studied cholera
John Snow
health screenings and detections are used to identify the disease
secondary prevention
habitat of living or nonliving which an infectious agent lives, grows, and multiplies.
reservoir
uninterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious disease to one person to another
direct transmission
the cause of the disease
agent
used the theory known as the atomic theory
Hippocrates
consist of limiting the disability by providing rehabilitation.
tertiary prevention
an invertebrate animal that transmits diseases
vector
occurs when disease are transferred by droplets or dust particles
airborne transmission
represents the incubation period of life expectancy of the host.
time
naval surgeon
James Lind
requires behavioral change in the individual
active primary prevention
a non living intermediary such as clothing that carries an infectious agent
vehicle
when a pathogen undergoes change as a part of its life cycle
biological transmission
includes surroundings and conditions of the human or animal that allowed the disease to be transmitted
environment
bills of mortality
John Graunt
attempt to restore a persons lifestyle
rehabilitation
an infectious organism in vertebrate animals
zoonosis
vehicle transmission
diagram of stages of epidemiology
outbreak of malaria and lathyrism
Bernardino Ragazzini