Epidemics
The occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy in a community or region
What is an epidemic?
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems.
What is epidemiology?
Contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism.
What is a carrier?
Requires behavior change in the individual
What is active primary prevention?
A uterine infection usually of the placental site, after childbirth
What is childbed fever?
An epidemic that affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country, or continent.
What is a pandemic?
The ability of a program to produce a desired effect among those who participate in the program compared with those who do not.
What is Efficacy?
The habitat in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, or multiplies, and on which it depends for its survival in nature.
What is a reservoir?
Does not require behavior change on the part of the individual.
What is passive primary prevention?
Chills, fever, headache/backache, with eruption of pimples that blister and form pockmarks
What is smallpox?
An infectious disease that arises from a specific source
What is common-source epidemic?
Involves characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
An invertebrate animal that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another.
What is a vector?
Preventing a disease of disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
A disease marked by spongy and bleeding gums, bleeding under the skin, and extreme weakness.
What is scurvy?
The ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people.
What is an endemic?
A behavior, environmental exposure, or inherent human characteristic that increases the chance of developing an adverse health outcome.
What is a risk factor?
An inanimate object such as a piece of clothing, a door handle, or a utensil that can harbor an infectious agent and is capable of being a means of transmission.
What is a fomite?
Aimed at the health screening and detection activities used to identify disease?
What is secondary prevention?
An acute infectious disease characterized by watery diarrhea, loss of fluid and electrolytes, dehydration, and collapse.
What is Cholera?
Arises from infections transmitted from one infected person to another
What is a propagated epidemic?
Involves finding and quantifying associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying causes of health-related states or events.
What is analytic epidemiology?
A nonliving intermediary such as a clothing, food, or water that conveys the infectious agent from its reservoir to a susceptible host.
What is a vehicle?
Consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage.
What is tertiary prevention?
An infectious disease characterized by a continued fever, physical and mental depression, rose-colored spots on the chest and abdomen, diarrhea, and sometimes intestinal hemorrhage or perforation of the bowels.
What is Typhoid fever?