Preventions
What prevention involves health screening?
Secondary prevention
What is a rapid spread of a disease?
Epidemic
What's an infectious disease that can jump from a non-human to a human
Zoonosis
What infection presents a small blister with surrounding swelling?
Anthrax
What was first used to immunize against smallpox?
Variolation
What requires behavior change in the individual?
Active primary prevention
What is the study of determinants of health and disease?
Epidemiology
What's a bacterial disease that infects the small intestine?
Cholera
What are objects that are likely to carry infections?
Formites
What is an essential micronutrient that an organism needs?
Vitamin
What does not require behavior change in the individual?
Passive primary prevention
What is someone's mental, and physical well being
Health
What disease is also known as the variola virus?
Smallpox
What's the transfer of pathogens from an infected host to a susceptible host?
Mechanical transmission
Atomic theory
What prevention consists of limiting any disability?
Tertiary prevention
What is an epidemic of infectious diseases?
Pandemic
What infectious disease includes a fever, headache, and a rash?
Typhus
What includes direct, and indirect contact?
Modes of disease transmission
What refers to the influence of multiple factors in the aetiology of a particular disease?
Multifactorial Etiology
What prevents a disease before it happens?
Primary prevention
What's an infectious agent called?
Pathogen
What type of infectious disease follows childbirth or abortion in females?
Childbed Fever
What types of diseases are transmitted. y the bite of infected arthropod species?
Vector-borne transmission
WHat's a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C?
Scurvy