Epidemiology
Used to measure between a certain exposure and a disease.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
Set of criteria for classifying whether the person has a disease, syndrome, or other health condition.
What is a Case?
Where infection prevention and control strategies takes place(2012).
Principles of epidemiology. (2012, May 18). Retrieved August 30, 2021, from https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section10.html
What is Modes of Transmission?
Intervening before health effects occur.
What is Primary Prevention?
A field of science that studies health problems within populations.
What is Epidemiology?
Is a way organizing data and summarizing information pertaining to time, place, and person.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
The person who brings the disease first to the group of people.
What is a Primary Case?
an infectious agent is transferred from a reservoir to a susceptible host by direct contact or droplet spread(2012).
Principles of epidemiology. (2012, May 18). Retrieved August 30, 2021, from https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section10.html
What is Direct Transmission?
Being proactive for example getting vaccine to prevent from disease.
What is Active primary prevention?
an unexpected increase of cases of disease in a specific geographical area(2021).
Epidemic, endemic, pandemic: What are the differences? (2021, February 19). Retrieved August 30, 2021, from https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/epidemic-endemic-pandemic-what-are-differences
What is epidemic ?
To a degree which actions make a clinically measurable effect under certain conditions.
What is Efficacy ?
Individuals who have contracted the disease from the exposure of someone with primary case.
What is a Secondary Case?
the transfer of an infectious agent from a reservoir to a host by suspended air particles, etc.
What is Indirect Transmission?
Strategies that occur that don't require action to be taken for protection to occur.
What is Passive primary prevention?
When a disease growth is exponential(2021).
Epidemic, endemic, pandemic: What are the differences? (2021, February 19). Retrieved August 30, 2021, from https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/epidemic-endemic-pandemic-what-are-differences
What is pandemic ?
To degree in which the actions achieved are the intended result under usual circumstances.
What is Effectiveness?
Possible chance case of person having disease and will be reported to authorities if infected.
What is a Suspect Case?
caused by pathogenic microbes small enough to be discharged from an infected person via coughing, sneezing, and etc(Division of disease surveillance).
Division of disease surveillance. (n.d.). Retrieved August 30, 2021, from https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/index.shtml
What is Airborne transmission?
Preventive measures that can lead to early diagnosis and allow for treatment to be done.
What is Secondary prevention?
a disease outbreak that is consistently present but not high in numbers in a certain region(2021).
Epidemic, endemic, pandemic: What are the differences? (2021, February 19). Retrieved August 30, 2021, from https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/epidemic-endemic-pandemic-what-are-differences
What is endemic?
Outbreak of results from transmission from one person to another.
What is Propagated?
The first person of documented case that's coming to the attention of the authorities.
What is a Index Case?
Disease that results from an infection transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding anthropods(Division of disease surveillance).
Division of disease surveillance. (n.d.). Retrieved August 30, 2021, from https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/index.shtml
What is Vector-borne transmission?
People who have already been affected by a disease.
What is Tertiary prevention?
An infected individual who can transmit the disease to others.
What is Active carrier?