Disease Outbreak Terms
An epidemic that has spread over multiple countries
What is a pandemic?
Preventing a disease before it happens
What is primary prevention?
Infected through contact with primary case
What is a secondary case?
Result of person to person contact
What is disease transmission?
A close association with the epidemiology triangle
What is the chain of infection?
An increase in the number of disease cases within a community, population, and region
Early detection of cancer through a screening process
What is secondary prevention?
First disease case in a population
What is a primary case?
Direct transmission and Indirect transmission
What are modes of transmission?
The habitat where an infectious agent lives
What is a reservoir?
A disease pertaining to a select population
What is an endemic?
Blocking the progression of a disease or condition
What is tertiary prevention?
What is a case?
When an arthropod conveys an infectious agent
What is vector-borne transmission?
How the pathogen enters the body of the host
What is the portal of entry?
Classifying whether someone has a particular disease or health condition
What is a case definition?
Promotion of health and quality of life
What is rehabilitation?
Brings disease to its host
What is a pathogen?
An example of this transmission is a cholera
What is vehicle borne transmission?
The nose on a human reservoir
What is the portal of exit?
A combination of common source epidemics and propagated epidemics
What is a mixed epidemic?
Doesn't require an individual to change behavior
What is passive primary prevention?
When illness requires hospitalization
What is case severity?
Pathogen undergoes lifestyle change within a host
What is biological transmission?
Where infectious diseases reproduction is transmitted
What is a susceptible host?