Basic Starters
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states of events in human populations and the application of this study ti the prevention and control of health problems.
What is Epidemiology?
occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly on excess of normal expectancy in a community or region.
What is Epidemic?
What is Case?
Is an object such as a piece of clothing, a door handle, or a utensil that can harbor an infectious agent and is capable of being a means of transmission.
What is Fomite?
Is preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is Primary Prevention?
Involves characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
An epidemic affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, or content.
What is Pandemic?
Ensures that cases are consistently diagnosed regardless of where or when they were identified and who diagnosed the case.
What is Case Definition?
The habitat (living or non-living) in or on which an infectious agent, lives, grows, multiples, and on which it depends for its survival in nature.
What is Reservoir?
Requires behavior change on the past of the individual. Stop smoking, exercising, fat intake.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Involves finding and quantifying associations, testing hypothesis, and identifying causes of health-related states or events.
What is analytic epidemiology?
Refers to the ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people; prevails in a region.
What is Endemic?
First disease case in the population.
What is Primary Case?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomite, or a vector.
What is Zoonosis?
Does not require behavior change on the part of the individual.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
A specific event, condition, or characteristic that precedes the health outcome and is necessary for its occurrence.
What is cause?
Arise from a specific source.
What is Common-Source Epidemics?
First case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist.
What is Index Case?
Is a nonliving intermediary such as a fomite, food, or water that conveys the infectious agent from its reservoir, to a susceptible host.
What is Vehicle?
Is aimed at the health screening and detection activities used to identify cases.
What is Secondary Prevention?
Behavior, environmental exposure, or inherent human characteristic that is associated with an important health condition.
What is risk factor?
Arise from infections transmitted from one infected person to another.
What is Propagated Epidemic?
Persons who become infected and ill after a disease has been introduced into a population and who become infected from contract with the primary case.
What is Secondary Case?
Individual who harbors a pathogen and who, although in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still infectious.
What is Convalescent Carrier?
Consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage.
What is Tertiary Prevention?