Cases
The first disease case in a population
What is a primary case?
Containing, spreading, or harboring an infectious organism.
What is a carrier?
Immediate transfer of an infectious agent from person to person
What is direct transmission?
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is Epidemiology?
What is primary prevention?
Being identified as having a disease/disorder/injury/condition
What is a case?
What is a healthy/passive carrier?
A mosquito transports the infectious agent
What is vector-borne transmission?
Having concerns with the why and the how
What is analytic epidemiology?
Sasha worked out regularly and ate healthy to avoid getting sick
What is an example of active primary prevention?
Ensuring cases that are diagnosed are consistent despite when or where the case was identified
What is the definition of case?
A person who is exposed to a pathogen and can spread the disease in different places/intervals
What is an intermittent carrier?
Droplets caused the elderly man to get sick.
What is airborne transmission?
Describing the outbreaks with person, place, and time
What is an example of secondary prevention?
Becoming ill and infected after disease has been introduced into population
What is a secondary case?
I can exist throughout the course of an entire disease if not treated.
What is a carrier condition?
Contaminated food or objects that may result with a large scale outbreak
What is vehicle borne transmission?
Application of addressing public health issues.
What is applied epidemiology?
Blocking the progression of a condition, disability and disorder to keep it from advancing
What is tertiary prevention?
Having all signs and symptoms of a disease although not diagnosed
What is a suspect case?
Someone who has been exposed to disease and presents symptoms while having the ability to transmit disease.
What is an incubatory carrier?
A transmission that's really seen in Malaria.
What is biological transmission?
Ability of a program to produce a desired effect among those who do and don't participate
What is efficacy?
I don't require behavioral change to feel better
What is passive primary prevention?