Must Know terms for Epidemiologists.
A field of science that study distribution and determinants of health-related states or events within human population.
What is Epidemiology?
The process in which infectious agent transmission occurs.
What is chain of infection?
Immunization
What is primary prevention?
An uninterrupted, immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another.
An individual who has been and exposed and harbors a disease-causing organism even after recovering from the disease.
What is active carrier?
Characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
Where and how a pathogen enters a new host.
What is Portal of Entry?
A form of primary prevention without the need of behavioral changes.
What is passive primary prevention?
When droplets or dust carries the pathogen to the host.
What is Airborne transmission?
An individual with no illness or symptoms but has been exposed and harbors a disease-causing organism.
What is passive carrier?
Finding and quantifying associations, testing hypothesis, and identifying causes of health-related states or events.
What is analytic epidemiology?
The beginning of disease transmission.
What is reservoir?
Any attempt to restore an afflicted person to a useful, productive, and satisfying lifestyle.
What is rehabilitation?
A physical transfer process, or a transfer from host to host.
What is Mechanical transmission?
An individual who has been exposed and harbors a pathogen and is within the beginning stages of the disease.
What is incubatory carrier?
A program’s ability to produce a desired effect of those within the program and comparing it to those outside the program.
What is Efficacy?
What is susceptible host?
Insulin therapy for a diabetic patient.
What is tertiary prevention?
An inanimate object conveys the infectious agent to the host.
What is Vehicle-borne transmission?
An individual in recovery phase that still harbors a pathogen and is infectious.
What is convalescent carrier?
A program’s ability to produce benefits to those who are offered to the program.
What is effectiveness?
Methods in which diseases transmit themselves from one host to another.
What is mode of transmission?
A mammogram for a women with a family history of breast cancer.
What is secondary prevention?
The pathogen changes as part of its life cycle within a host/vector and before it is transferred to a new host.
What is biological transmission?
An individual who can harbor and transmit a pathogen within different places or different intervals.
What is intermittent carrier?