Communicable disease

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What type of Causative Agents is this:
Industrial chemicals

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Chemical Agents

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What type of Causative Agents is this:
Heat

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Physical Agents

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What type of Causative Agents is this:
Viruses

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Biological Agents

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What type of Causative Agents is this:
Air pollutants

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Chemical Agents

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What type of Causative Agents is this:
Radiation

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Physical Agents

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What type of Causative Agents is this:
Speeding objects and Noise

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Physical

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an illness
caused by some specific biological
agent or its toxic products that can
be transmitted from an infected
person, animal, or inanimate
reservoir to a susceptible host

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Communicable
(infectious) disease

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a
disease that cannot be transmitted
from infected host to susceptible host

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Noncommunicable
(noninfectious) disease

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The establishment of a communicable disease agent in a host organism is called

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Infection

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many noncommunicable health conditions are
called

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multicausation diseases

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the ability of a
biological agent to enter and grow
in the host

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Infectivity

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the capability
of a communicable disease agent to
cause disease in a susceptible host

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Pathogenicity

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the minimal requirements
for the occurrence and spread
of communicable diseases in a
population—agent, host, and
environment

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Communicable disease
model

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the cause of the disease or health
problem

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Agent (pathogenic agent)

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a person or other living
organism that affords subsistence or
lodgment to a communicable agent
under natural conditions

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Host

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a model
to conceptualize the transmission
of a communicable disease from its
source to a susceptible host

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Chain of infection

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a person who is sick with a
disease

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Case

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a person or animal that
harbors a specific communicable
agent in the absence of discernible
clinical disease and serves as a
potential source of infection to others

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Carrier

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a communicable
disease transmissible under natural
conditions from vertebrate animals
to humans

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Zoonosis

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a disease that
infects only humans

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Anthroponosis

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the
immediate transfer of an infectious
agent by direct contact between
infected and susceptible individuals

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Direct transmission

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communicable disease transmission
involving an intermediate step

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Indirect transmission

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an inanimate material or
object that can serve as a source of
infection

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Vehicle

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a living organism, usually an
arthropod (e.g., mosquito, tick, louse,
or flea), that can transmit a communicable agent to susceptible hosts

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Vector

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the cause of a disease

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Etiology

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a visual representation of the host together with various internal and external factors that promote and protect against disease

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Multicausation disease model

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a chronic disease characterized by damage to the coronary arteries in the heart

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Coronary heart disease (CHD

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a chronic disease characterized by damage to blood vessels of the brain resulting in disruption of circulation to the brain

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Cerebrovascular disease (stroke)

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uncontrolled new tissue growth resulting from cells that have lost control over their growth and division

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Malignant neoplasm

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the spread of cancer cells to distant parts of the body by the circulatory or lymphatic system

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Metastasis

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the planning for and taking of action to forestall the onset of a disease or other health problem

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Prevention

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efforts to control a disease in progress

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Intervention

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Eradication

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the complete elimination or uprooting of a disease (e.g., smallpox eradication)

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preventive measures that forestall the onset of illness or injury during the prepathogenesis period

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Primary prevention

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preventive measures that lead to an early diagnosis and prompt treatment of a disease or injury to limit disability and prevent more severe pathogenesis

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Secondary prevention

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measures aimed at rehabilitation following significant pathogenesis

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Tertiary prevention

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occurs when exposure to a disease-causing organism prompts the immune system to develop antibodies against that diseas

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Active immunity

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occurs when a person receives antibodies against a disease rather than their immune system producing them

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Passive Community

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the separation of infected persons from those who are susceptible

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Isolation

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limitation of freedom of movement of those who have been exposed to a disease and may be incubating it

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Quarantine

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the killing of communicable disease agents outside the host, on countertops, for example

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Disinfection

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disease agents, such as HIV, that are transmissible in blood and other body fluids

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Bloodborne pathogens

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a set of regulations promulgated by OSHA that sets forth the responsibilities of employers and employees with regard to precautions to be taken concerning bloodborne pathogens in the workplace

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Bloodborne Pathogens Standard

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Factor contributing to the development of a noncommunicable disease that cannot be altered by modifying one’s behavior or environment

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Unmodifiable risk factor

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Contributor of a noncommunicable disease that can be altered by modifying one’s behavior or environment

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Modifiable risk factor