Type of "-emics"
The constant presence of a health-related event in a population.
What is an endemic?
An individual with a confirmed health-related condition.
What is a case?
A means of transportation for the infectious disease to be spread (i.e humans, animals, etc.).
What is a carrier?
Name the two modes of transmission.
What are direct and indirect transmissions?
Preventing a disease before it occurs.
What is primary prevention?
An occurrence of continuous cases of a health-related event in a community or region.
What is an epidemic?
The primary case brought to an epidemiologist.
What is the index case?
A symptomatic individual carrying pathogens for an infectious disease after exposure.
What is an active carrier?
The transfer of infectious bacteria via droplets or dust particles.
What is airborne transmission?
Behavior change in an individual.
What is active primary prevention?
An epidemic attacking a region, country, or continent.
What is a pandemic?
The first confirmed disease case of a population.
What is a primary case?
An asymptomatic individual carrying pathogens for an infectious disease after exposure.
What is a passive carrier?
A cycle in which a pathogen is transformed into a new state before being transmitted to a new host.
What is biological transmission?
No behavior change in an individual.
What is passive primary prevention?
An epidemic derived from a specific source.
What is a common-source epidemic?
An individual diagnosed with a condition after coming in contact with a different individual with the same condition.
What is a secondary case?
An individual carrying pathogens of an infectious disease that the individual is recovering from.
What is a convalescent carrier?
An inanimate object that carries an infectious agent to a host.
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
The detection and screening of activities to identify a disease.
What is secondary prevention?
An epidemic traveling from one source to another.
An individual with symptoms of a health-related condition, but no confirmed diagnosis.
What is a suspect case?
An individual carrying pathogens of an infectious disease, recently after exposure and in the beginning stages of showing symptoms.
What is an incubatory carrier?
The occurrence of an arthropod (i.e flea, tick, etc.) carrying an infectious agent.
What is vector-borne transmission?
Limiting the spread/effects of a disease that has already occurred or caused damage.
What is tertiary prevention?