Prevention
Prevention that aims to prevent a disease, infection, or injury before it happens
What is primary prevention?
An invertebrate animal that transmits infections from one host to another.
What is a vector?
uninterrupted mode of transmission from one person to another
What is direct transmission?
a carrier who has been exposed to a pathogen
What is an active carrier?
a person in a population with a partivular disease, disorder, injury, or condition. identification of the person ensures consistency in diagnosis
What is a case?
Primary prevention that requires a change in behavior of an individual
What is active primary prevention?
a way of an infectious agent survives as in where it grows and multiplies
What is a Reservoir?
Transmission through a fomite or vector.
What is Indirect transmission?
an asymptomatic carrier who‘s been exposed to a pathogen but has no symptoms
What is a healthy carrier?
in an epidemic, the first disease case in the population
What is a primary case?
primary level of prevention that does not require individual behavior change(s).
What is passive primary prevention?
a fomite that is an intermediary that transfers infectious agent from reservoir to a susceptible host (nonliving)
What is a vehicle?
transmission that occurs when droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host
What is an airborne transmission?
a carrier that harbors the pathogen and is still infectious in their recovery phase
What is a convalescent carrier?
A person who has gotten infected from being in contact with the primary case.
What is a secondary case?
Level of prevention that aims to block disease progression.
What is secondary prevention?
An infectious organism in vertebrae animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomit, or a vector.
What is zoonosis
Transmission of a pathogen driven by an arthropod
What is a vector-borne transmission?
a carrier that has been exposed an has the pathogen during the beginning stage, and can transmit disease
What is an incubatory carrier?
In an epidemic, this is the first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist
What is an index case?
level of prevention that block the progression of disability, condition, or disorder to prevent advancement.
What is Tertiary prevention?
A non living item that can harbor an infectious disease and therefore be a mode of transmission
What is a fomite?
An inanimate object transmitting the pathogen or infectious agent to the host
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
a carrier that has been exposed and harbors the pathogen, meaning that this carrier can spread the pathogen in different places or intervals.
What is an intermittent carrier?
individual(s) with all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but hasn’t been diagnosed to be connected to a suspected pathogen.
What is a suspect case?