What is?
Evaluation of exposure and outcome of a disease
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
An organism that causes disease to its host.
What is pathogens?
An attempt to prevent a disease before it occurs
What is Primary prevention?
The type of transmission spread through contact
What is Direct transmission?
The diagnosis of an individual of a disease or health related issue
What is Case?
Answers who, what, when, and where of a study.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
A quick rise in infectious disease outbreaks that affects a large group in a specific area.
What is epidemic?
The change in behavior to promote healthy living
What is Active primary prevention?
The spread of infectious agents without human to human contact. Typically spread through air, water, or objects.
What is Indirect transmission?
The first documented case of a disease
What is Primary case?
The process depicting the time when a disease is transmitted from one host to another
What is Chain of infection?
Quick spread of infectious disease throughout multiple regions in a specific point in time.
What is pandemic?
The prevention of disease without adjustment to lifestyle
What is Passive primary prevention?
The transmission of infectious agents through the air via droplets
What is Airborne transmission?
The infection spread from the primary case through contact to another person
What is Secondary case?
An outbreak rooting from one source but develops into two or more outbreaks.
What is Mixed epidemic?
disease that is present consistently and is local to specific regions or areas.
What is Endemic?
The use of testing to prevent disease
What is Secondary prevention?
The disease spread through live organisms such as blood sucking organisms like mosquitos and ticks.
What is Vector-borne transmission?
The act of an individual showing signs or symptoms of a disease but there is not enough evidence to suggest the diagnosis of the disease
What is suspect case?
The host of a disease is asymptomatic but can still transfer the disease to others.
What is Convalescent carrier?
The place or environment that a species grows, lives, and reproduces in.
What is Reservoir?
The act of rehabilitation when acquiring a disease
What is Tertiary prevention?
The transmission of infectious agents through inanimate objects
What is Vehicle-borne transmission?
The first documented case of a disease in a region or population
What is index case?