Key Terms
Number of people meeting the case definition per 100,000
What is a rate?
Number of people who have died from the condition you are studying per 100,000
What is mortality rate?
A nurse that develops of adapts interview tools, conducts interviews, or collects specimens regarding an outbreak.
What is an investigator?
The person or animal in the epidemiological triangle that transmits the illness/condition.
What is the host?
Methods to finding out who is ill
What is case finding?
or
What is surveillance?
The chance a person with a specific exposure might develop the condition or have a specific outcome versus the chance that they would NOT have that outcome
What is Risk?
Number of new cases detected per 100,000
Incidence rate
What is a reporter?
The part of the epidemiological triangle that is where the transmission of a disease/condition is occurring or what makes it more likely to be transmitted.
What is the environment?
The part of epidemiology that deals with the distribution of health outcomes. It answers the who, when, and where.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
There are more cases than expected.
What is an outbreak?
Number of people who had a chance to develop the condition being studied and actually got it.
What is attack rate?
The nurse that administers vaccinations or provides patient care and education in response to an outbreak.
What is a responder?
A carrier that transfers an infection from one host to another but does not get sick itself.
What is a vector?
Type of study that observes the association between exposures and outcomes, but does not intervene.
What is an observational study?
There is a rise in cases above what is expected in a specific population.
What is an epidemic?
Number of people ill with the condition you are studying per 100,000
What is a morbidity rate?
The nurse that researches, trains, and prepares public health staff and organizations for an outbreak.
What is a planner?
An individual who is confirmed sick stays away from other people to avoid transmitting an infectious disease.
What is isolation?
A type of study where the epidemiologist or investigator initiates a treatment or intervention to influence the risk for or course of the disease.
What is an experimental study?
An epidemic that spreads to multiple countries or is found in more than on continent
What is a pandemic?
Number of people with the condition at any given time per 100,000
What is prevalence rate?
The nurse that helps answer the question, "Is this of significance to public health?"
What is a consultant?
An individual who appears healthy but may have been exposed to an infectious disease stays at home and away from other people.
What is quarantine?
A type of epidemiological study that seeks to answer the question, "Do people with the outcome of interest have exposure characteristics more frequently than those who do not have the outcome of interest?"
What is a case-control study?