Characteristics of Epidemiology
What is Epi?
The ability to create an intended outcome.
What is Efficacy?
An individual within a community who obtains a certain disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is a Case?
An inanimate object that carries infection, bacteria, or disease.
What is Fomite?
Instant and undisturbed transfer of an infection from one being to another.
What is Direct Transmission?
A field of science that studies health problems within populations.
What is Epidemiology?
A result that is considered to be successful due to the desired outcome.
What is Effectiveness?
Protocol that ensures individuals are being correctly and efficiently diagnosed.
What is a Case Definition?
An organism, such as an insect. Who transmits an infection to either another animal or human.
What is a Vector?
Transfer of an infectious agent by intermediate items which results in obtaining the infection.
What is Indirect Transmission?
Research and identification of health-related issues, states, and events.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
An outbreak of an infectious disease within a population.
What is Epidemics?
The initial reported disease case within a population or community.
What is a Primary Case?
A habitat where an infection agent thrives, multiplies, and expands.
What is a Reservoir?
Infection, bacteria, or virus most commonly transferred through smaller respiratory droplets.
What is Airborne transmission?
A detailed description of a health-related outbreak, such as person, place, and timing.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
Ongoing/reoccurring disease within a community.
What is Endemics?
An individual who falls ill after the initial primary case.
An illness such as a disease or infection that can be transmitted from animals to humans.
What is Zoonosis?
Human illnesses are caused by parasites or organisms. Ex: Cholera or Shigellosis
What is Vector-borne Transmission?
The basic model for infectious disease. It consists of an external agent, a susceptible host, and the environment that combines the host and agent.
What is Epidemiology Triangle?
A worldwide rapid spread of an infectious disease.
What is a Pandemic?
An individual who obtains the characteristics of a disease, who has not been diagnosed.
What is a Suspect Case?
Person or animal that contains, spreads, or conceals an infectious organism.
What is a Carrier?
Indirect transmission from an inanimate pathogen that is transferred from a host, reservoir, or intermediary vehicle objects.
What is Vehicle-Borne Transmission?