Classifying Maladies
Another name for illness.
What is disease?
Disease moving to new host.
What is mode of transmission?
Who, what, where, when.
What are variables?
A human carrying an infectious illness.
What is a host?
What is association?
Sudden increase of diseases or illnesses.
What is outbreak?
Spreading disease throughout the air.
What is airborne transmission?
Epidemiology involves more than the study of disease.
What is health-related states or events?
This model is commonly used to illustrate the Epidemiology model.
What is the Epidemiology model?
Proof that an environmental factor and a health issue are connected.
What is causation?
Constant presence of disease in a population in a specific geographical area.
What is endemic?
Spreading disease through direct contact from one person to another.
What is direct transmission?
This involves identifying the frequency and patterns of population health.
What is the study of distribution?
This shows the process of through which infectious disease transmission occurs.
What is the chain of infection?
This prevention method prevents diseases before they occur.
What is primary prevention?
More than expected outbreak of disease cases outside a geographical area.
What is Epidemic?
Spreading disease through blood feeding insects (mosquitoes and ticks)
What is biological transmission?
This is a specific event which occurs before a health outcome.
What is a determinant or cause?
This blood feeding insect can move between agent and host, spreading diseases.
What is a vector, mosquito, tick?
This prevention method does not involve the person changing their behavior.
What is passive primary prevention?
An illness that has spread to multiple countries or even the world.
What is pandemic?
Spreading disease through contaminated water or through the air.
What is indirect transmission?
The personality and characteristics of the individual and environment determines this in each person.
What is risk?
According to the Epidemiology model, this needs to occur for disease to spread.
What is interaction between agent and host in suitable environment?
This prevention method requires the population to be diligent with their health.
What is active primary prevention?