disease detectives

Question 1

clinical approach

Answer 1

diagnosis and treatment of illness in individuals
performed with surgeries and prescribing medicine

Question 2

public health approach

Answer 2

control and prevention of disease in populations
performed with creating guidelines and studying disease spread

Question 3

epidemiology

Answer 3

the study of the distribution and determinants of health related events in specified populations and the application of this study to control the health problem

Question 4

determinants

Answer 4

the things that give you a disease

Question 5

distribution

Answer 5

where the diseases are spreading and located

Question 6

descriptive epidemiology

Answer 6

identification of people, places, and times involved in a event

Question 7

analytic epidemiology

Answer 7

identification of how a problem occurs

Question 8

natural history of disease

Answer 8

progression of disease in an individual over time

Question 9

susceptibility

Answer 9

a stage where you are not sick, but people are around are sick, you can possibly be exposed

Question 10

subclinical disease

Answer 10

the asymptomatic stage, where you have been exposed

Question 11

incubation period

Answer 11

the time in between exposure, and showing symptoms

Question 12

infectious disease

Answer 12

a disease that can be spread through people

Question 13

latent period

Answer 13

the time where you show symptoms, but the disease has not fully developed yet

Question 14

chronic disease

Answer 14

a very long disease

Question 15

clinical disease

Answer 15

very clear symptoms that you are sick

Question 16

convalescent period

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recovering from a disease, either death, disability, or recovery

Question 17

susceptible host

Answer 17

someone who holds a disease and can infect, can only be an alive organism

Question 18

agent

Answer 18

a microbial organism that has the ability to cause disease

Question 19

reservior

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a place where agents can reproduce and grow, the holder of a disease, can be anything

Question 20

portal of entry

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opening allowing the microorganism to enter the host, how the disease enters the body

Question 21

mode of transmission

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the method of transfer for the organism to move and infect

Question 22

portal of exit

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the place of exit providing a way for an agent to leave the reservoir

Question 23

direct contact

Answer 23

occuring through touch

Question 24

droplet contact

Answer 24

coughed, sneezed, or spit on (only <1 meter transfer)

Question 25

air-borne transmission

Answer 25

via droplets that have transferred through aerosols (>1 meter transfer)

Question 26

food-borne transmission

Answer 26

through food

Question 27

water-borne transmission

Answer 27

through water

Question 28

vector

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via living intermediary, transferred by a living thing

Question 29

cluster

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a condensed group of cases in a specific time period and area

Question 30

endemic disease

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an agent that is consistent throughout a population/area

Question 31

epidemic

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a large number of people are affected throughout a wide area

Question 32

etiology

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the study of a cause of a disease

Question 33

fomite

Answer 33

an object that can serve to transmit an agent from a person to another

Question 34

iatrogenic

Answer 34

an illness caused by a medicine or physician

Question 35

index case

Answer 35

the first patient in an epidemiological study

Question 36

morbidity

Answer 36

rate of disease in a population

Question 37

mortality

Answer 37

rate of death in a populaton

Question 38

outbreak

Answer 38

more cases than expected in a certain area over a period of time

Question 39

pandemic

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an epidemic occurring over an even wider majority of the population

Question 40

plague

Answer 40

a potentially life threatening disease that gets transmitted to humans by bites of rodent fleas

Question 41

nosocomial disease

Answer 41

an infection acquired at a hospital

Question 42

risk

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the likeliness of an individual being affected or dying from an illness

Question 43

surveilance

Answer 43

the ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data

Question 44

zoonosis

Answer 44

a disease that can affect humans by animals