Modes of Disease Transmission
What are Blood Borne Pathogens?
Preventing a disease before it happens.
What is Primary Prevention?
A disease that affects a large number of people and has spread over multiple countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
The foundation of public health.
What is Epidemiology?
This disease is the number one cause of death in the United States.
A mosquito can spread Dengue Fever by biting multiple people.
What is Vector Transmission?
Exercise, healthy diet, and no smoking are examples of this type of prevention.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
What is an epidemic?
This type of epidemiology involves testing hypotheses and identifying causes of health related events.
What is analytical epidemiology?
This is the second highest cause of death in the United States.
What is cancer?
There are four components involved in the Epidemiology Triangle
Host, infectious agent, environment, and time
This type of prevention requires behavorial change from the individual.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
"all"
What is pan?
This type of epidemiology provides a description to the who, what, when, and where.
What is desciptive epidemiology?
This is the third highest cause of death in the United States.
What is accidents?
There are six components in The Chain of Infection.
Infectious Agent, Reservoir, Portal of Exit, Mode of Transmission, Portal of Entry, and Suscetible Host
This type of prevention is used when the patient is on the cusp of being diagnosed with a disease.
What is Secondary Prevention?
Tetanus, Rabies, and Plague are examples for this type of disease break out.
What is Sporadic?
Someone who studies the causes and occurrences of diseases in a population.
What is a epidemiologist?
This type of prevention was used to stop infectious diseases from being the highest causes of death.
Tuberculosis can be spread through air currents. When interacting with a Tuberculosis patient, this type of precaution is needed.
What is Airborne Precautions?
This tye of prevention is performed after being diagnosed with a disease.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
"People of a district"
What is -demic?
The number of health related events in a population.
What is frequency?
By controlling pests and animals, these diseases are no longer a huge threat.
What is Malaria, Rabies, and the plague?