Foundation
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and it's application of prevention and control health problems.
What is epidemiology?
The occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior or events in excess of normal expectancy in a community or region.
What is an epidemic?
A person within a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is a case?
A human or animal that is susceptible to a disease.
What is a host?
The prevention of a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
The characterization of the distribution of health-related states or events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
An epidemic that affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country or continent.
What is a pandemic?
The first disease case in a population.
What is a primary case?
An inanimate (nonliving) object such as clothing, food, or water that conveys the infectious agent from it's reservoir to a susceptible host.
What is a fomite (vehicle)?
The required behavior change in people.
What is active primary prevention?
The finding and quantifying association, testing hypothesis, and identifying causes of health-related states or events.
What is analytic epidemiology?
It is the ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people.
What is an endemic?
The first disease case brought to the attention of an epidemiologist.
What is an index case?
An invertebrae animal that transmits infection by the conveying the infectious agent from one host to another.
What is a vector?
The behavior change on the part of an individual is not required.
What is passive primary prevention?
It is a specific event, condition, or characteristic that precedes the health outcome and necessary or its occurrence.
What is a cause?
The arise from a specific source.
What is a Common-Source Epidemic?
An infected and ill person after the disease has been introduced into a population due to contact with a primary case.
What is a secondary case?
The habitat (living or no living) in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, multiplies, and on which it depends for it's survival in nature.
What is a reservoir?
The health screening and detection activities used to identify diseases.
What is secondary prevention?
It is the behavior, environmental exposure, or inherent an characteristic that increases he chance of developing an adverse health outcome.
What is a risk factor?
The arise from infections transmitted from one infected person to another.
What is a propagated epidemic?
A disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite.
What is a pathogen?
The disease transmission occurrence when the pathogen leaves the reservoir through the portal of exit and is spread by a mode of transmission.
What is the chain of infection?
The third level of prevention to block the progression of a disability, condition, or disorder to keep it from advancing and requiring extreme care.
What is tertiary prevention?