Definitions
A field of science that studies health problems within populations.
What is Epidemiology?
intervening before health effect occur.
What is Primary prevention?
Is the way a disease can be transmitted to others.
What are Modes of Transmission?
Is an instance of a particular disease that meets the criteria.
What is a case?
Is a person that does not present symptoms but is capable of transmitting the disease.
What is a carrier?
Is concerned with the search for causes and effects. Is the tool epidemiologist use to quantify relationship between cause and effect.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
Focusing on reducing of the modifiable risk factors.
What is Active primary prevention?
Is the transmission of a disease from the host to a recipient
What is Direct transmission?
Is a criteria applied to determine whether a person should be identified as having a disease. It details time, place and person.
What is case difinition?
Is a person who is infected with a disease and can transmit it to others.
What is an Active carrier?
Describes the outbreak regarding demographic characteristics.
What is descriptive Epidemiology?
Focusing on reducing of the modifiable risk factors.
What is Active primary prevention?
Is the transmission of a disease from the host to a recipient by indirectly. Touching an infected object
What is Indirect transmission?
A person who acquired the disease from exposure to the contaminant.
What is Primary case?
Is a person who never presents symptoms.
What is a healthy or passive carrier?
Is the extend when the intervention does more good than harm?
What is Efficacy?
A prevention method that It doesn’t require for the individual to do anything.
What is Passive primary prevention?
Is the transmission of pathogens that are small enough to be expelled by coughing, laughing or talking
What is Airborne Transmission?
A case that has not yet been confirmed.
What is a suspect case?
Is a person that harbors an infectious organisms but presents symptoms only from time to time.
what is intermittent carrier?
The widespread of a disease in a county or the world?
What is a pandemic?
Is the implemented measure to reduce the severity of disease. For example, blood pressure medication.
What is Tertiary prevention?
Is facilitated by a mechanical vector. An animal that does not get infected yet transmits the disease.
What is Mechanical transmission?
First case coming to attention of health authorities
What is an index case?
Is a person who can transmit an illness before the incubation period, before presenting symptoms.
What is Incubatory carrier?