Preventions
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens
What is Primary Prevention?
Person to person transmission
What is direct transmission?
Someone capable of passing a genetic mutation resulting in disease.
What is a carrier?
Occurring occasionally or at random intervals
What is sporadic?
Includes propagated and common-source outbreak characteristics.
What is a mixed epidemic?
Quick use of treatment in order to halt a disease from progressing any further
What is Secondary Prevention?
Transferred through a unliving object
What is indirect transmission?
Someone harboring a pathogenic organism and spreading it amongst peers.
What is an Active carrier?
Something that belongs to not all populations, but specific populations
What is an endemic?
Objects or materials that are likely to carry an infection
What is a Fomite?
An attempt to soften the impact of a disease or ongoing illness with lasting effects.
What is Tertiary prevention?
Usually transmitted through blood sucking insects
What is Vector-borne transmission?
Someone not exhibiting symptoms of sickness while still carrying the disease.
What is a passive carrier?
A more than expected increase of an endemic
What is an outbreak?
A microorganism that can cause a disease
What is a pathogen?
A behavioral change on an individual's part
What is Active primary prevention?
When a vector transports organisms
What is Mechanical transmission?
Someone who has recovered from illness, but still passes the disease along.
What is a Convalescent carrier?
A sudden increase in number of cases of a particular disease
What is an epidemic?
An organism that transmits a disease from one living organism to the other
What is a Vector?
What is health promotion, health education, and health protection?
An inanimate object contaminated with an infectious agent that causes transmission.
What is a Vehicle Borne transmission?
A carrier of a disease with no prior history that disease whatsoever
What is an Incubatory carrier?
Similar to an epidemic but spread through multiple countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
A disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans
What is Zoonosis?