The Study of the distribution and determinates of health related states in specific population, and the application of this study to control health problems.
What is Epidemiology?
100
Made up of links in sequential order, which include:Agent, resevoir, mode of transmission, portal of entry and host.
What is the chain of infection?
100
Includes agent, host and environment.
What is the epidemiology triad?
100
Include blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
What is humors?
100
An infected person who shows no evidence of clinical disease but can still infect others.
What is a carrier?
200
The body of accumulated knowledge arising from years of Descriptive Epidemiology.
What is Substantive Epidemiology
200
Person to person transmission.
What is direct transmission?
200
A person or animal that provides a suitable place for an infectious agent to grow and multiply.
Who is a host?
200
vapours rising from rotting refuse or stagnant water.
What is miasmas?
200
Primary, Secondary, tertiary are all examples.
What are levels of prevention?
300
The interval from infection to the time of onset of clinical illness or when symptoms appear
What is incubation period?
300
Includes both vehicle and vector-borne contact.
What is Indirect transmission?
300
An organism, substance or force whose presence or absence is necessary for a disease process to occur
What is an agent?
300
The first father of epidemiology.
Who is Hippocrates?
300
Includes inapparent disease, clinical disease, severe outcome/fatal illness.
What are the classifications of disease severity?
400
The processes of normally leading to disease occurrence, before any intervention, and to the the course and outcome of the disease process.
What is the natural history of disease?
400
Transfer of infectious agent from a vector's body to the host.
What is a Mechanical vector?
400
the greatest proportion of mortality in "developed countries"
What is non-infectious disease?
400
Added two new elements to Hippocrates humors, was the roman emperor's personal physician.
Who is Galen?
400
Breast self exam
What is secondary prevention strategy?
500
The ability of an agent to produce systemic or local immunologic reactions in the host.
What is immunogenicity?
500
the spread of airborne droplets over large distances is an example.
What is indirect transmission?
500
Includes both the apparent clinical disease and the inapparent subclincial disease.
What is Iceburg metaphor?
500
First to claim that disease was transfered from one person to another who then develops the disease, called contagion.