Epidemiology
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems? (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.2)
What is Epidemiology "the study of which befalls people"(Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.2
the occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy in a community or region (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.5).
What is an epidemic?
The uninterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another requires physical contact between an infected host and a susceptible person an the physical transfer of a pathogen (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.9).
What is direct transmission?
a person in a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.7)
What is a case?
Scurvy, is a disease marked by spongy and bleeding gums, bleeding under the skin, and extreme weakness(Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.19).
What disease was common to sailors on long trips?
the characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.2).
What is Descriptive Epidemiology (Merrill, R. M. 2021, p.2)
An epidemic that affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country, or continent(Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.5).
What type of epidemic has been prevalent since March 2020?
Occurs when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a host, resulting in disease (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.9).
What is indirect transmission?
In an epidemic the first disease case in the population (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.7).
What is a primary case?
A disease characterized by chills, fever, headache, and backache, with the eruption of pimples that blister and form pockmarks (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.20).
involves finding and qualifying associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying causes of health-related states or events?(Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.2)
What is Analytic epidemiology (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.2)
Belongs to particular people or populations. Natural to native to confined to or widespread only within a place or population of people.
What and where does an endemic affect?
(Malaria is an example of this)
Occurs when droplets of dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.9).
What is airborne transmission? common examples include (respiratory viruses, rubella)
The first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.37.
What is the index case?
A uterine infection, usually of the placental site, after childbirth. Resulting in an uneventful birth, after the birth of the child the mother would get an infection and die (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.21).
What is Childbed Fever?
A specific event, condition, or characteristic that preceded the health outcome and is necessary for its occurrence?
What is a cause?
arise from a specific source, and tend to result in cases occurring more rapidly during the initial phase(Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.5).
What is a common source epidemic?
Occurs when an arthropod conveys the infectious agent, and does not cause the disease but is responsible for transmitting the pathogen to the host (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.9).
What is vector-borne transmission?
A person who becomes infected and ill after a disease has been introduced into a population and who is infected as a result of contact with the primary case (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.7).
An acute infectious disease characterized by watery diarrhea, loss of fluid and electrolytes, dehydration, and collapse(Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.22).
What is cholera?
a behavior, environmental exposure, or inherent human characteristic that increases the chance of developing an adverse health outcome Epidemiology (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.3).
What is a risk factor? (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.3)
arises from infections transmitted from one infectious person to another (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.5).
What is a type of infection disease called propagates epidemic?
involves an inanimate object that conveys an infectious agent to a host(Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.10).
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
an individual (group of individuals) who has all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but has not been diagnosed as having the disease or has the cause of the symptoms connected to a pathogen (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.7).
What is a suspect case?
An infectious disease characterized by a continued fever, physical and mental depression, rose-colored spots on the chest and abdomen, diarrhea, and intestinal hemorrhage (Merrill, R. M. (2021, p.29).
What is Typhoid Fever?