Epidemiology Terms
A characteristic, event, or condition that needs to be met in order to the health outcome to occur.
What is a cause?
Transmission by ingestion or direct contact of an infected object.
What is Vehicle-based transmission?
A virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite.
What is a Pathogen?
A person in a population who is identified with having a certain disease.
What is a Case?
The attempt to restore an afflicted person to a more satisfying lifestyle.
What is Rehabilitation?
Characteristics of distribution that lead to health related states or events.
What is Descriptive epidemiology?
An epidemic with both a common source and propagation.
What is Mixed Epidemic?
What is a Carrier?
The first disease case that is brought to the attention of epidemiologists.
What is an Index Case?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is Primary Prevention?
A condition that increases possibility of a health-related state or event.
What is a risk factor?
What is an Epidemic?
Transmission of an pathogen through an infected object that is inanimated.
What is Fomite?
How severe a the illness is.
What is Case Severity?
Behavior changes of an individual in order to prevent a disease or condition.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
The discovery and quantification of associations of causes which cause a health state or event.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
An ongoing presence of a disease in a group or community.
What is Endemic?
The habitat of a pathogen.
What is a Reservoir?
People in a population after the disease has been introduced to the population or by contact of the primary case.
What is a Secondary Case?
Prevention that does not require an individual to change their behavior.
What is Passive Primary Prevntion?
The study of how area exposure and certain activities can affect public health along with ways to prevent and control health problems.
What is epidemiology?
An epidemic that affects continents, countries, or extensive regions.
What is a Pandemic?
An infectious carrier that is exposed to a pathogen and shows beginning stages of the disease.
What is and Incubatory carrier?
An individual that shows signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but is not diagnosed with having the disease.
What is a Suspect Case?
Screenings and detection Activities used to identify disease.
What is Secondary Prevention?