Types of "outbreaks"
An epidemic that effects or attacks the population, country, or continent.
What is a pandemic
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention
Refers to the ability of a program to produce benefits among those who are offered in the program.
What is effectiveness
A specific event, condition, or characteristic that precedes the health outcome and is necessary for its occurance.
What is a cause
A person in a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is a case
The occurance 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
Requires behavior change in individual.
What is active primary prevention
Any virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite.
What is pathogen
A behavior, environmental exposure, or inherent human characteristic that increases the chance of developing an adverse health outcome.
What is a risk factor
Ensures that cases are consistently diagnosed, regardless of where or when they were identified and who diagnosed the case.
What is a case definition
Refers to the ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people.
What is an endemic
Aimed at the health screening/detection activities used to identify disease.
What is secondary prevention
Contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism.
What is a carrier
Study of the distribution and determinants of health related states and events in human populations and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems.
What is epidemiology
The first disease case in the population.
What is a primary case
Occurs when victims of a common source epidemic have person to person contact with others and spread the disease.
What is a mixed epidemic
Attempt to restore an afflicted person to a useful, productive and satisfying lifestyle.
What is rehabilitation
Occurs when droplettsor dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection.
What is airborne transmission
Involves characterization of the distribution of health related states and events.
What is descriptive epidemiology
The first case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist.
What is an index case
Arises from infections transmitted from one infected person to another.
What is a propagated epidemic
Consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder had already occurred and caused damage.
What is tertiary prevention
A close association between the triangle of Eepidemiology.
What is chain of infection
Involves finding and quantifying associations, testing hypothesis, and identifying causes of health-related states or events.
What is analytic epidemiology
A peson who becomes infected and ill after a disease has been introduced into a population and who is infected as a result of contact with the primary case.
What is a secondary case