Epidemics
An outbreak of an infection in a community
What is a Epidemic?
A person that is identified as having a particular disease in a population
What is a Case?
Direct transmission of a disease from one person to another; requires physical contact for transfer
What is Direct Transmission?
A person that has a pathogen for a significant time and can infect other people
What is an Active Carrier?
Prevention of a disease before it happens
What is Primary Prevention?
An epidemic that affects a region, country, and continent
What is a Pandemic?
A protocol for diagnosing a person
What is a Case Definition?
A type of transmission that occurs through droplets or particles
What is Airborne Transmission?
A person that has a pathogen but is not ill or showing symptoms
What are Passive Carriers?
Changes in behavior that prevent diseases
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Ongoing diseases that affect a particular group or population, continuous in a specific region
What is an Endemic?
The first disease case
What is a Primary Case?
Disease is transmitted through an item or organism
What is Indirect Transmission?
A person that has recovered from a pathogen but can still transmit it to other people
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
A group that's exposed to an infection that came from the same source
What is a Common-Source Epidemic?
A person that is infected from being in contact with the primary case
What is a Secondary Case?
A strategy for identifying how diseases spread
What are Modes of Transmission?
A person that is in the beginning stages of a disease that has symptoms and can transmit
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
Uses screenings and other machines to detect diseases
What is Secondary Prevention?
Infections that stemmed from being passed from one person to another
What is a Propagated Epidemic?
Shows relations between the 4 epidemiological variables that cause an epidemic
What is an Epidemiology Triangle?
An arthropod (fleas, mosquitoes, etc.) transmit diseases through this transmission
What is a Vector-Borne Transmission?
A person that is exposed to and has a disease that can spread it at different places and intervals
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
The process of rebuilding a person in order for them to be productive again through therapy, counseling, education, and more
What is Rehabilitation?