Intro
What is known as the foundation of public health?
What is epidemiology?
Covid-19 is classified as?
What is a pandemic?
__________ is the cause of the disease.
What is the agent?
__________ an object that can harbor a disease and assist with transmitting it.
What is a fomite?
What are the types of prevention?
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention?
A condition or characteristic that leads to an outcome, and is necessary for something to happen.
What is a cause?
The rise of a health issue within a community or region?
What is an epidemic?
If a patient is susceptible to an infectious disease, they are considered a?
What is a host?
__________ does not cause the disease but can spread it to susceptible humans and animals.
What is a vector?
What two things have made a major impact in stopping communicable disease epidemics?
What are personal hygiene and public health measures?
A __________ can increase the possibility of someone developing an adverse health outcome.
What is a risk factor?
A constant and usual prevalence of a disease that is confined to a community or region.
What is endemic?
What allows the agent and host to interact?
What is the environment?
What often serves as a reservoir and host?
What is a human?
Eating vitamin-enriched food is what type of prevention?
What is passive primary prevention?
__________ finds the "why" and "how" by comparing data and testing hypotheses
What is analytic epidemiology?
What are the two types of infectious-disease epidemics?
What is a common-source epidemic and propagated epidemic?
What are the interrelated variables that are present in an infectious disease outbreak?
What are the host, agent, environment, and time?
List all the types of carriers
What are active carriers, convalescent carriers, health carriers, incubatory carriers, and intermittent carriers?
Which type of prevention seeks to avoid wasteful use of healthcare services?
What is tertiary prevention?
__________ characterizes and describes the who, what, when, and where of a population's health-related state or event.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
An epidemic that comes from a specific source and is transmitted from one infected person to another?
What is a mixed epidemic?
What are the five agents of infectious disease?
What are bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, and molds?
How is zoonosis transmitted?
What is direct contact, a fomite, or a vector?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), what are some of the primary threats to global health?
What is climate change, antimicrobial resistance, weak primary health care, not getting vaccinated, and HIV?