Types Disease transmission
A type of transmission where pathogens travel in the air to cause disease
What is airborne transmission?
Where one person in a population gets diagnosed with a disease
What is a case?
An object such as a door handle that can be a host to bacteria and potentially spread a disease from one person to another
What is a fomite?
The prevention of a disease before it occurs
What is primary prevention?
The study of disease within a population
What is epidemiology?
The immediate transmission of disease
What is direct transmission
The first case in the population
An animal such as a mosquito that transmits a disease from one host to another
What is a vector?
Requires an individual to make a healthstyle change in order to prevent a disease (exercise)
What is active primary prevention?
An outbreak of a disease in the population, at a specific time
What is an epidemic?
A type of transmission where a pathogen is transferred through a carrier such as an animal
What is indirect transmission?
Where someone from the population gets infected with a disease from a primary case, after the disease has been introduced
What is a secondary case ?
The habitat where an agent that causes infection lives, this is usually an environment where they can reproduce easily
What is a reservoir?
This type of prevention does not require a change in lifestyle from an individual
What is passive primary intervention?
What is a pandemic?
A type of transmission where pathogens transfer from an infected to a new susceptible host
What is mechanical transmission?
An individual who has all the symptoms of disease but has not been identified yet
What is a suspect case?
A disease that can be transferred from animal to humans
What is zoonosis?
This type of prevention relias on health screenings in order to identify the health issue on time before it can cause an individual more harm
An ongoing disease that will continue to show up, sometimes through seasons
What is an endemic?
A type of transmission where an arthropod transfers a pathogen to a host
What is vector-borne transmission?
Often referred as the "patient zero" it is the first case recorded during an epidemic
What is the index case?
An individual in the population who although has recovered can still infect another host
What is a convalescent carrier?
This occurs after a disease or disability has already happened, and aims to rehabilitate an individual so that they are not dependent on health care workers
What is tertiary prevention?
Host, infectious agent, environment, and time
What are the components of the epidemiology triangle?