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Refers to the ongoing, usually, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people.
What is Endemic?
A person in a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is a Case?
An inanimate object such as a piece of clothing, or a door handle, or a utensil that can harbor an infectious agent and is capable of being a means of transmission.
What is a Fomite?
The uninterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another.
What is Direct Transmission.
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is Primary Prevention?
Involves characterization ff the distribution of health-related states or events.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
Ensures that cases are constantly diagnosed, regardless of where or when they were identified.
An invertebrate animal such as mosquitoes that transmits infection by conveying the Infectious agent from one host to another.
What is Vector
Occurs when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a host, resulting in disease
What is Indirect Transmission?
Aimed at the health screening and detection activities used to identify disease.
What is Secondary Prevention?
Arises from infections transmitted from one infected person to another.
What is Propagated Epidemic?
The first disease case in the population.
What is Primary Case?
Habitat living or nonliving in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, and multiplies, and on which it depends for its survival in nature.
What is a Reservoir?
Occurs when droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection.
What is Airborne Transmission.
Primary prevention that requires behavior change in the in the individual EX: begin exercising, stop smoking.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
The pathogen or disease-causing agent that enters the body through a ______ of the susceptible host.
What is Portal of Entry?
An individual or a group of individuals who has all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but has not been diagnosed as having the disease.
What is Suspect Case?
An infectious organism invertebrate animal that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomite, or a vector.
What is Zoonosis?
Involves an inanimate object that conveys an infectious agent to a host.
What is Vehicle-borne Transmission?
Primary prevention does not require behavior change on the part of the individual EX: eating vitamin-enriched foods.
What is Passive Primary prevention?
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human population and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems.
What is Epidemiology?
Any virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite.
What is a Pathogen.
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen and which can spread the disease in different places or at different intervals.
What is Intermittent Carrier?
When the pathogen undergoes changes as part of its life cycle while within the host/ vector and before being transmitted to a new host.
What is Biological Transmission?
Consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage.
What is Tertiary Prevention