Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
3040 East Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194
100
The manner the disease moves to a new host.
What is the mode of transmission?
100
If primary prevention is used during prepathogenesis or incubation stage, then this level of prevention is used when the host begins to react to the agent or in the pathogenesis stage.
What is secondary prevention
100
Total deaths of infants in given year in population/
Total # of live births in same year in population
What is infant death rate
200
US Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
What is the DHAPP?
200
Who is the RTI President
E.Wayne Holden
200
This involves contact between a person with the disease and another person.
What is direct transmission?
200
This level of prevention may include rehabilitation or palliative care
What is tertiary prevention?
200
LG in full in relation to electronics
Life is Good
300
February 2008
When did the UPHIV project start in Uganda?
300
According to the epidemiology model, this is needed for disease to happen?
What is the interaction of the agent, host, and environment
300
Which dates was CHOGM hosted in Uganda?
23rd-25th November 2007
300
Reasonable evidence there is a connection between a stressor (environmental factor) and a health issues (or disease).
What is association?
300
Number of new cases of a disease in population in given time (1 year)
Average total population in same time period
What is incidence
400
TB, sexually transmitted diseases, and AIDs are examples of communicable diseases that must be _____________.
What are examples of reportable diseases?
400
This can move between an agent and host, causing spread of the disease.
What is a vector? ie a tick or mosquito
400
Transmission that includes a vector or vehicle such as contaminated water, or air borne.
What is indirect contact?
400
A relationship between a stressor and disease is confirmed.
What is causation?
400
Total deaths from a specific cause in a year in a population subgroup/
Average total population subgroup for the same year
What is specific mortality rates?
500
The characteristics of the individual, which interact with the agents, and environments determines this in each person.
What is risk or susceptibility?
500
Instead of using a triangle to illustrate the epidemiology model , this is used to illustrate the relationship between the elements of the epidemiology model?
What is a Venn diagram?
500
The unknown transmission mode of HIV in the 1980s led to this positive commonly used medical precaution.
What are universal precautions?
500
A model used when there are many indirect and direct causes (often including the DOH) related to the health issue.
What is a web of causation?
500
Total deaths from any cause in a given year in a population/
Average total population for the same year