Levels of Prevention
The first level of prevention
What is primary prevention?
The foundation of Public Health
What is Epidemiology?
Known as the father of medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
Organic components in food that are needed in very small amounts for metabolism, growth, and maintaining good health
What is vitamins?
Inanimate object such as a piece of clothing, door handle, or a utensil that can harbor an infectious agent and is capable of being a means of transmission
What is fomite?
The two types of primary prevention
What is active and passive primary prevention?
An epidemic that affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country, or continent
What is pandemic?
Wanted to make nursing a respectable profession and advocated for strict discipline and an attention to cleanliness
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Someone who suggested that other nutritional factors exist beyond known ones of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and minerals
Who is Frederick Gowland Hopkins?
An exposed individual who harbors a disease-causing organism even if the person has recovered from the disease
What is active carrier?
The three levels of prevention
An epidemic that arises from infections transmitted from one infected person to another
What is propagated epidemic?
Laid the groundwork for descriptive and analytic epidemiological approaches found useful in epidemiology today
Who is John Snow?
A term invented by Casimir Funk that was a chemical substance he believed belonged to the class of chemical compounds called amines, so he added the latin term for life, vita, to its name
What is vitamine?
An invertebrate animal that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another and does not cause the disease itself, but can be part of the process
What is vector?
Aims to block the progression of disease or prevent an injury from developing into an impairment or disability
What is secondary prevention?
Involves characterization of the distribution of health-related stories or events
What is descriptive epidemiology?
Used photography to take the first pictures of microbes to show the world that microorganisms exist and they are what causes diseases
Who is Robert Koch?
Someone who eradicated beriberi from the Japanese navy by adding vegetables, meat, and fish to their diet, which until then had just been rice
Who is T.K. Takai?
Is exposed to and harbors the pathogen and spreads the disease in different places or at different intervals
Limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage
What is tertiary prevention?
Someone that focuses on identifying the source of exposure, number of persons exposed, potential for further spread, and uses descriptive and analytical methods to provide information
What is epidemiologist?
Known as the father of modern medicine due to creating a new epidemiology curriculum for new academic discipline and showed that epidemiology is an analytical science closely related to biology and medical science
Who is Wade Hampton?
A person who showed that two factors were required for the normal growth of rats, such as a fat-soluble "A" factor found in fats and a water-soluble factor found in nonfatty food
Who is Elmer McCollum?
Rabies is transmitted from infected animals to a human host through saliva by biting or through a susceptible host
What is zoonosis?