Types of Transmission
spread of a disease through sexual intercouse, skin-to-skin contact, kissing, or other firsthand contact
What is Direct Transmission
Intervening with disease before health effects occur, such as vaccinations
What is primary prevention?
An individual who can transmit a disease to others
A study that involves causes and effects, or why and how a disease outbreak occurs
What is analytic epidemiology?
The first of a chain of people to contract a disease
What is primary case?
Transmission of a disease through a second party such as contaminated surfaces, or vectors such as mosquitoes
What is indirect transmission?
Trying to detect a disease early and prevent it from worsening (such as health screenings)
What is secondary prevention?
An individual who can transmit a disease but is not infected themself
What is a passive carrier?
The ability to produce a desired or intended result
What is efficacy?
A person or people who contracted a disease from a primary case
What is secondary case?
Disease or illness caused by bacteria, parasites, or other vectors of transmission
What is Vector-Borne Transmission
Aims to reduce the effects of a disease once established in an individual (such as rehabilitation efforts)
What is tertiary prevention?
An individual who has recovered from an illness but is still able to spread the disease
What is a convalescent carrier?
A widespread occurrence of a disease in a certain area at one time
What is an epidemic?
A person who is a confirmed contact of an infected person
What is suspect case?
Indirect transmission of a disease or illness through a reservoir, source, or host to host through a intermediary vehicle
What is Vehicle-borne Transmission
Prevention that occurs without awareness
An individual who can transmit a disease during the period before they are aware they have the disease
A widespread disease over a whole country, continent, or world
What is a pandemic?
The first identified case in a group of related cases of a particular disease
What is index case?
Transmission of a disease through the blood meal of one animal injected into another animal through a vector such as a mosquito.
Trying to recover and get back to normal after having health conditions caused by a diseases or illness
An individual who has a disease who can spread that disease at different places or intervals
What is an intermittent carrer?
A group of people who are all exposed to a disease from the same source
What is common-source?
Set of criteria to determine of someone has a particular disease, or a confirmed person with a disease
What is a case?