Case Concept's in Epidemiology
Case
What is it called when a citizen has been spotted having a specific disease, disorder, injury, or condition?
Pandemic
What is it called when an epidemic begins to attack a large number of regions/populations?
Vector-borne transmission
What is it called when an arthropod carries the infectious agent?
Rehabilitation
What is it called when one makes an effort to help an injured individual restore their injury and help them go back to their productive lifestyle?
Active carrier
What type of carrier is it when an individual who has been exposed to and possesses a disease-causing organism and who has done so for some time, even though the person may have recovered from the disease?
Primary case
During an epidemic, what is it called when the first case of a disease is discovered among a population?
Endemic
What is it called when a disease is constant within a community or region?
Airborne transmission
What is it called when droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause an infection?
Active primary prevention
What type of prevention requires one to change their behavior?
Healthy carrier
What type of carrier is it when an individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing pathogen and who has done so for some time, even though the person may have recovered from the disease?
Index case
What is it called when epidemiologists attention gear towards the first of a disease case?
Common source epidemic
What type of epidemic rises from a specific source?
Reservoir
What is the habitat (living or nonliving) in/on which an infectious agent lives and multiplies, and depends on it for its survival in nature?
Passive primary prevention
What type of prevention does not require one to change their behavior?
Convalescent carrier
What type of carrier maintains a pathogen and is in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still infectious?
Suspect case
What is it called when a citizen displays every sign and symptom of the disease or condition but, has yet to be diagnosed for having the said disease?
Propagated epidemic
What type of epidemic rises from an infection transmitting from one ill person to another?
Vehicle
What is a nonliving intermediary?
Secondary prevention
What prevention focuses on health screening and detection activities used to identify disease?
Incubatory carrier
What type of carrier has been exposed to and maintains a pathogen, and is in the early stages of the disease, and is illustrating symptoms, and is able to transmit the disease.
Secondary case
What is it called when an individual is infected with a disease that has been newly established into ones population, and they've become infected due to having contact with the primary case?
Pathogen
What is a common name for viruses, bacteria, fungus, or a parasite?
Zoonosis
What is the name of the infectious organism found in vertebrate animals and it can be transmitted to humans three different ways?
Tertiary prevention
What type of prevention is it when ones focus is to limit the disability by supplying rehab to it even after the fact that it has already caused damage?
Intermittent carrier
What type of carrier has been exposed to and maintains a pathogen while being able to spread the disease in different places or at different intervals?