The Epidemics
An increase in the number of cases occurs above what is normally expected.
What is an epidemic?
Criteria that determine the diagnosis of a health-related event
What is a case definition
Someone who carries a pathogen even after recovery
What is an active carrier?
Transfer of bacteria in dust particles
What is an airborne transmission
The effort to prevent a disease before it happens
A disease attacking the population of an extensive region
What is a pandemic?
The first disease case in a population
Someone who carries the pathogen but shows no symptom
What is a healthy carrier?
Transfer of a disease to a human from an invertebrate animal likes ticks
What is vector-borne transmission?
Behavior changes, like going to the gym. of an individual before the disease happens.
What is an active primary prevention?
An epidemic where a disease comes from the same source.
What is a common-source epidemic?
What is a secondary case?
Someone who recovering from the pathogen but is still contagious
What is a convalescent carrier?
Transfer of a disease to a human from objects like a needle
No behavior change comes from an individual to prevent a disease before it happens
What is passive primary prevention?
An epidemic disease gets transmitted from person to person.
What is a propagated epidemic?
Someone in the beginning stages of an illness
What is an incubatory Carrier?
Transfer of a disease that spreads using a host like a fly as a ride to other organisms
What is a mechanical transmission?
Activities aimed to improve the likelihood of cure to decrease the chances of death
What is secondary prevention?
An epidemic where victims of a common source have spread the infection from one person to another
What is a mixed epidemic?
The first case that gets noticed by an epidemiologist
Someone who carries the pathogen but spreads at different intervals or places
What is an intermittent carrier?
Transfer of a disease to a susceptible host by an invertebrate animal with the pathogen going through reproduction
What is a biological transmission?
Providing rehabilitation where the disease had already damaged the individual
What is tertiary prevention?