Epidemiology Basics
This is the study of how diseases and other health concerns are distributed in a population, how they start, and how to prevent and control them.
What is epidemiology?
This is when an disease, illness, or health concern occurs more often than expected in a specified area.
What is an epidemic?
This is a person who has been diagnosed with a disease or health-related concern.
What is a case?
This is the direct transfer of an agent from either a host or reservoir to a potentially exposed host.
What is direct transmission?
This is preventing a disease or condition before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
This type of epidemiology answers the questions "Why?" and "How?" and uses statistics to evaluate hypotheses.
What is analytic epidemiology?
This is an epidemic which effects a greater area of a region, country or continent.
What is a pandemic?
This is the first case in a population.
What is a primary case?
What is indirect transmission?
This requires a change in behavior of the individual.
What is active primary prevention?
This type of epidemiology describes who, what, when, and where in relation to diseases and health concerns in a population.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
This is the normal trend of a disease in a community or group of people.
What is an endemic?
This is an individual who is infected after contact with the primary case and the disease is present in the popluation.
What is a secondary case?
This occurs when droplets or dust carry the disease to the host.
What is airborne transmission?
This does not require a change in behavior of the indiviual.
What is passive primary prevention?
This is the ability of prevention and treatment programs to produce an intended result of participants in comparison to non-participants.
What is efficacy?
This is an epidemic which comes from a specific source.
What is common-source epidemic?
What is a suspect case?
This is when mosquitos, fleas, ticks, or lice transports the disease to a host.
What is vector-borne transmission?
This is utilizing methods of health screening and early detection in order to reduce the chance of disability or death and improve the the chance of cure.
What is secondary prevention?
This is the ability of prevention and treatment programs to produce benefits for participants.
What is effectiveness?
This is an epidemic which is spread from person infected.
What is propagated epidemic?
This is the first case brought to epidemiologists.
What is an index case?
This is when a vector-borne disease transmission uses a host such as a fly, flea, louse, or rat in order to transfer to a host, for a ride, or for sustenance.
What is mechanical transmission?
This is providing rehabilitation in order to limit disability when damage has already occurred due to disease, injury, or a disorder.
What is tertiary prevention?