Basic Epidemiology
An illness that effects and spreads through multiple populations/regions/countries/continents.
What is a pandemic?
A person or animal susceptible to a disease
What is a host?
A habitat that an infectious agent can grow and multiply
what is a reservoir?
Disease transferred through person to person contact
what is direct transmission?
Restoration from the damage the disease has done to the host
what is rehabilitation?
The term synonymous with "outbreak" meaning a spread of an illness in a community of region.
What is an epidemic?
The cause of the disease
What is an agent?
An inanimate object that can transfer a disease to a host
What is a fomite?
An agent transferred by an intermediate object or living thing that infects a susceptible host
What is an indirect transmission?
Preventing the disease from even happening
what is primary prevention?
One who becomes ill because of transmission from the primary case
What is a secondary case?
Disease leaving the host body
what is a portal of exit?
what is a vector?
An indirect transmission where a pathogen is transferred via droplet or dust particle to infect a susceptible host
What is an airborne transmission
Health screening to help identify the disease
what is secondary prevention?
The first case that is brought to the attention of an epidemiologist
What is an index case?
Disease entering the body through nose mouth etc.
what is a portal of entry
Also referred to as a passive carrier; one who has not become ill from a disease but possesses the pathogen
what is a healthy carrier?
An indirect transmission involving an arthropod
what is a vector born transmission?
Damage protection from the fallout of a disease
what it tertiary prevention?
Victims of a common source epidemic then have person to person contact to spread the disease
What is a mixed epidemic?
Factors and conditions outside of the body of the host that allow diseases to spread
What is an environment?
An individual who is exposed to a disease and spreads it in different places
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
An indirect transmission that involves an inanimate object
what is a vehicle born transmission?
Behavioral changes that is preventative
what is active primary prevention?