The Epidemiology Triangle
Four factors that helps us to understand outbreaks of diseases.
What is the Epidemiology Triangle?
Process through which the transmission of disease occurs.
What is the chain of infection?
Infectious diseases spread through the air or other mechanisms.
What is indirect transmission?
Before the risk factor is presented
What is active primary prevention?
Set of standard criteria for classifying if an individual has certain health conditions.
What is a case definition?
The host, the agent, the environment, Time.
What are the four factors of the epidemiology triangle?
Six different factors.
How many parts make up the Chain of Infection?
An animal bite or scratch.
What is an example of vectorborne transmission?
Eating healthy and exercising
What is primary prevention?
The first case of a condition.
What is the index case?
Factors that will assist in stopping the outbreak.
What is any one of them?
Human skin
What is a portal of exit?
The most common mode of transmission.
What is direct transmission?
Having a screening for skin cancer.
What is secondary prevention?
The next infected person from a disease.
What is a secondary case?
Health Care workers, Patients, Unvaccinated Individuals.
What are examples of a host?
What is a reservoir?
Coughing or Sneezing
What is droplet transmission?
Minimizing effects of long-term impairments.
What is tertiary prevention?
Person Place and Time
What are conditions for a case?
Infectious agent that is currently a hot topic at the start of 2020.
What is the Coronavirus?
The coronavirus affects humans.
What is a susceptible host?
Microorganisms simply in the air
China preventing many people from leaving due to the coronavirus.
What is primary prevention.
Man in China with flu like symptoms from early to late January.
What is an example of a case definition?