Cases
An individual diagnosed with a health related state or event.
What is a case?
An infected individual that spreads or harbors an infectious pathogen.
What is a carrier?
Different ways a disease can transfer.
What are modes of transmission?
Effort to prevent a disease before it transmits
What is primary prevention?
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is epidemiology?
The first disease case in the population.
What is a primary case?
An individual that is a carrier of a pathogen, either currently or having the disease prior.
What is an active carrier?
Transferring immediately of an agent to a host/reservoir.
What is direct transmission?
Behavior that prevents disease or disorder before it begins
What is active primary prevention?
A study that examines the “whys” and “hows” to test a hypothesis.
What is an analytic epidemiology?
The second disease case in the population.
What is a secondary case?
An individual that is a carrier of a pathogen but does not show illness or symptoms.
What is a healthy or passive carrier?
Transferring of a disease to a human by a vector
What is a vector borne transmission?
Does not require behavior changes to prevent the disease.
A detailed rundown of how a health related event occurred in a population. This includes who, what, when, and where.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
The assumed individual(s) who has signs of the disease but have not been confirmed.
What is a suspect case?
A recovered individual that still contains a pathogen.
What is a convalescent carrier?
Transferring of a disease via host. Whether it be for a ride, nourishment or as part of the transfer process.
What is a mechanical transmission?
Behavior that reduces the severity of a disease or sickness and increase likelihood of a cure.
An increase number of disease cases in a specific time and place
What is a epidemic?
The first disease case brought to an epidemiologist.
What is an index case?
An individual that is a carrier of a pathogen and is able to transit the disease at different places or intervals.
What is a intermittent carrier?
A transferring pathogen that undergoes reproduction and/or developmental changes.
What is a biological transmission?
Behavior that rehabilitates an injury or disorder when damage was caused.
What is tertiary prevention?
A usual number of disease cases in a specific community of individuals
What is an endemic?