What type of "-ic" is it?
An increased number of illnesses that is abnormal to a location.
What is an epidemic?
An individual within a population that has a certain health condition or disease
What is a case?
A living organism that contains and spreads and infectious organism
What is a carrier?
The cause of a disease
What is an agent?
The three types of prevention
What is primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention?
An illness that commonly reoccurs in a population
What is an endemic?
A person who becomes infected by another person who had the first disease case
What is a secondary case?
A vertebrate organism that carries an infectious agent which can be transmitted to humans
What is zoonosis?
The process that details how an agent infects a susceptible host
What is the chain of infection?
The injury or disease has occurred, but has not caused significant damage. This method aims to provide early diagnoses to prevent further damage or stop it entirely.
What is secondary prevention?
A type of epidemic that spreads outside its infected geographical area or population
What is a pandemic?
A person or a group that is not diagnosed with a certain illness or health condition, but displays signs of being infected with a pathogen or other symptoms.
What is a suspect case?
A person who is recovering from a disease, but still harbors the pathogen that caused it and infect other people
What is an convalescent carrier?
The place where an infectious agent depend on to survive, undergoes its life cycle, and multiplies
What is a reservoir?
What is active primary prevention?
An epidemic that starts with individuals infect each other.
What is a propagated epidemic?
A disease case that is first brought to an epidemiologist
What is an index case?
Infection of the host that occurs when exposed to droplets and dust that contain the pathogen
What is airborne transmission?
An area in which an infectious agent can enter a host
What is portal entry?
A severe illness or disability has been developed and the aim is to provide rehabilitation and posttreatment recovery, or slow down progression of the health condition.
What is tertiary prevention?
An epidemic that occurs when a person is in contact with a specific source of a disease, then spreads the disease by interacting with other people
What is a mixed epidemic?
This can be measured by the length of hospital stay, likelihood of recovery, and amount of healthcare resources used.
What is case severity?
Before transmitting to a new host, a pathogen will change during its life cycle within its current host
What is biological transmission?
A process where an infectious agent can only travel and infect hosts by physical contact
What is direct transmission?
This includes patient education and aftercare to help a person achieve the highest quality of life.
What is rehabilitation?