Which -emics is it?
Spread over multiple countries or continents and effects lots of people
What is a pandemic?
When an agent is transferred or carried by an unliving object
What is an indirect transmission?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens
What is primary prevention?
When pathogen leaves the reservoir
an individual who has all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition that is not yet known
what is suspect case
A more than expected increase of an endemic
What is an outbreak?
Immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another.
What is direct transmission?
Aimed at health screening and detection activities used to identify disease
What is secondary prevention?
Pathogen or disease-causing agent enters the body
What is portal of entery?
the first disease case in the population
what is primary ase
What is sporadic?
When an arthropod conveys the infection agent
Consists of limiting any disability by providing rehab when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage.
What is tertiary prevention?
the habitat in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, multiples and on which it depends for its survival in nature
what is a reservoir?
involves finding and quantifying associations testing hypothesis, and identifying causes of health related states or events
what is analytic epidemiology?
What is endemic?
When fomites, food or water that acts as a conveyance
What is vehicle borne transmission?
requires behavior change on the part of the individual
What is passive primary prevention?
Infectious organism in vertebrate animals
what is zoonosis
involves characterization if the distribution of health related states or events
what is descriptive epidemiology?
Sudden increase in the cases of diseases in a particular disease more than nomal
What is an epidemic?
When droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause an infection
What is an airbone transmission?
Does not require behavior change on the part of the individual
what is passive primary prevention?
an invertebrate animal that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to the other
what is a vector
study of distribution and determinants of health related stated or events in human populations and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems
what is epidemiology