Epidemiology
Terms
Terms
The study of factors related to frequency, distribution, and determinants of all diseases in humans across the population
What is Epidemiology
The term for a disease that is caused by a pathogen
What is Infectious Disease
This is the most important method for health care workers to reduce the transmission of microbes
What is Hand Washing
This type of carrier, carries the pathogen but is never ill
What is a Passive Carrier
This term means no further cases occur and programs for control are not necessary.
What is Eradication
The study of structure and function of pathogens causing disease
What is Pathology
A disease that occurs only occasionally within the population of a particular geographic area
What is a Sporadic Disease
These are inanimate objects capable of transmitting pathogens
What is a Fomite
This type of carrier is capable of transmitting pathogen during incubation period of infectious disease
What are Incubatory Carriers
These microbes purposely used to harm others in wartime
What are Biological Warfare Agents
A ratio of the number of people who died of a particular disease during a specified time period per a specified population
What is Mortality Rate
A disease that is always present within the population of a particular geographic area
What is an Endemic Disease
This mode of transmission is transferred by droplets > 5 μm
What is Droplet Transmission
This type of carrier carries pathogen and capable of transmitting during recovery period
What are Convalescent Carriers
Examples of Bioterrorism
Anthrax, Small Pox, Plague, Botulism
This is a type of infectious disease that can be transmitted from one person to another
What is a Communicable Disease
(e.g. Gonorrhea)
This has a greater than usual number of cases of a disease in a particular region, usually within a short period of time
What is an Epidemic Disease
This big factor could contribute to a susceptible host and the development of an opportunistic infection
What is Stress
This type of carrier completely recovered from an illness but continue to harbor the pathogen indefinitely
What is an Active Carrier
Examples of Nationally Notifiable Diseases
Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Salmonella, HIV, Lyme Disease, Pertussis, Syphilis, Shigellosis, Varicella, Streptococcus
This is a type of disease that humans acquire from animal sources
What is a Zoonotic Disease
(e.g. Lyme Disease)
A disease occurring in epidemic proportions in many countries simultaneously
What is a Pandemic
Patient gowns, bedding, towels, eating utensils, stethoscope, gloves, telephones, keyboards
What are Fomites
Typhoid Mary was an example of which type of carrier?
What is an Active Carrier
This is a reduction of transmission to very low level
What is Elimination