Levels of Prevention
This term refers to making an effort to prevent a disease or disorder before it happens or before you get infected
What is primary prevention?
This term refers to an agent being transferred by an intermediate object (typically nonliving) to the host, resulting in disease; person to non-person contact
What indirect transmission?
This term refers to an infected living organism, such as an animal or human, spreading, containing, or harboring an infectious agent/organism
What is a carrier?
This term refers to the first disease case in the population; a living organism (typically a human) who brings a disease first to a population
What is a primary case?
This term refers to a disease/disorder arising from a specific source
What is a common source?
This level of prevention is aimed to detect or screen for the disease or disorder in order to reduce the severity
What is secondary prevention?
Is a type of transmission that involves a nonliving object being contaminated by the infectious agent and transferred to a susceptible host
What is a vehicle-borne transmission?
Is a type of carrier that involves an individual who has been exposed to and harbors the pathogen, but is not infected (is not ill or showing symptoms)
What are healthy or passive carriers?
This term refers to the first disease case that has brought the attention of epidemiologists; patient zero
What is an index case?
This term refers to a pattern that arises from infections trasmitted from one infected individual to another
What is propagated?
This type of prevention requires the individual to change their behavior in order to prevent a disease or disorder before it happens
What is active primary prevention?
This term refers to the infectious agent being transferred to one person to another; person to person contact
What is a direct transmission?
This term refers to a nonliving object that can harbor an infectious agent and being a means of transmission
What is a fomite?
This type of case refers to an individual who has been infected by the disease after it has been introduced as a result of contact with the primary case
What is a secondary case?
Pertaining to an epidemic that affects the population of an extensive region, country, or continent
What is a pandemic?
This prevention strategy reduces the impact of the disease or disorder by providing rehabilitation and restoring the individual's health
What is tertiary prevention?
Is a type of transmission that involves a pathogen undergoing some biological changes within the host/vector before being transmitted to a new host
What is a biological transmission?
Is a type of carrier that involves an individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism and spreads the disease from different places and different times (intervals)
What is an intermittent carrier?
This term refers to an individual who demonstrates the signs or symptoms of a disease, but has not been diagnosed or the symptoms is not connected with the pathogen
What is a suspect case?
Pertains to the occurance of cases of an illness or health related behavior/events in which there is an excess of normal expectancy in a community; widespread outbreak amongst individuals
What is an epidemic?
What is passive primary prevention?
This term refers to a type of transmission that involves an arthropod transferring an infectious agent to a living organism (the host); such as a human or animal
What is the vector-borne transmission?
This concept refers to the habitat in which the infectious agent lives, grows, and multiplies prior to infecting an organism
What is a reservoir?
This term refers to an individual who has been identified as having a specific disease, disorder, injury, or condition
What is a case?
This term refers to when a disease or infection is in a steady pace or it is ongoing without it being a widespread outbreak; a disease continually prevails in a region
What is an endemic?