A broad, extensive periodic spread of an illness
What is an pandemic?
Factors that helped the diseases spread
What is the epidemiology triangle?
A person who contracts a specific health issue
What is a case?
Something or someone who transfers infectious diseases
What is a carrier?
The first step in stopping health issues before it happens
What is primary prevention?
A regional or community periodic spread of an illness
What is an epidemic?
How a disease is caused in the first place
What is the agent?
The first case to occur in a population of people
What is a primary case?
Someone who has been exposed and contracts a disease for some time, even after recovery
What is an active carrier?
A person needs to have behavioral changes
What is active primary prevention?
An epidemic that occurs from a particular orgin
What is a common-source epidemic?
The person(s) or animal(s) that are prone to contracting a disease
What is the host?
The first case recognized by an epidemiologist
What is an index case?
The instant transfer of disease from one person(s) to other person(s)
What is direct transmission?
What is passive primary prevention?
Infections spread through an infected person(s) to a person(s)
What is a propagated epidemic?
The environment that allows/causes illness to contract with others
What is the environment factor?
People who contract the illness from the primary case
What is a secondary case?
"droplets or dust particles" that transfer diseases and result in infection
What is airborne transmission?
This helps to prevent the health issue from getting further than just a minor issue
What is secondary prevention?
What is a mixed epidemic?
A person(s) that have not been diagnosed with a specific illness but show the signs/symptoms
What is a suspect case?
The disease being transferred from something other than a human to a human
What is indirect transmission?
Prevent harsher outcomes after a person has already contracted the disease and cannot prevent it anymore
What is tertiary prevention?