Key Terms
This is the study of mechanisms of disease.
What is Pathophysiology?
These are vulnerabilities.
What are risk factors?
These are the presenting signs and symptoms of the disease.
What are clinical manifestations?
The study of disease in populations
What is epidemiology?
Focuses on protecting people from developing a disease or injury
What is primary prevention?
When the disease has no known etiology.
What is idiopathic?
Risk factors that can be changed by the individual.
What are modifiable risk factors?
These are the observable or measurable expressions of a disease.
What are signs?
The number of new cases within a given time
What is incidence?
Performing a breast self-exam is an example of this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
Diseases that are the inadvertent result of medical treatment.
What is iatrogenic disease?
Risk factors that cannot be changed by the individual.
What are nonmodifiable risk factors?
These triggers promote the onset of clinical manifestations.
What are precipitating factors?
The number or percentage of the population living with a particular disease at a given time
What is prevalence?
This is the early detection of disease through screening and early treatment
What is secondary prevention?
This term means disease beginning.
What is pathogenesis?
The risk factors of family history, age, and race.
What are nonmodifiable risk factors?
This is the flaring of symptoms.
What are exacerbations?
This is a dramatic increase in disease incidence in a population
What is an epidemic?
Immunizations are an example of this level of prevention
What is primary prevention?
The precise cause of a disease
What is etiology?
The risk factors of cigarette smoking, sedentary lifestyle, and obesity.
What are modifiable risk factors?
Symptoms are gradual in onset.
What is insidious?
When an epidemic spreads across continents
What is a pandemic?
This focuses on rehabilitation after diagnosis of a disease or injury
What is tertiary prevention?