-emic Health Flashcards
1
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What attitudes and beliefs contribute to health skepticism
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- Inclination toward CAM
- Magical health beliefs
- Natural & intuitive explanations
- Conspiracist ideation
- Extreme regard for personal agency
2
Q
Disease levels relative to what is “normal for a given area
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- Endemic: staus qou
- Epidemic: increase relative to established norm
- Pandemic: increase relative to established norm involving multiple geographic regions
3
Q
Define outbreak
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- Can be interchangeable with epidemic, but often refers to a smaller spike in cases of an as-yet -unidentified pathology
4
Q
Define cluster
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- Similar to outbreak, but can refer to small pockets of cases with a common location or pattern of exposure
5
Q
What 3 things do epidemics require
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- Agents
- Hosts
- Opportunity
6
Q
Possible factors contributing to greater than normal disease levels
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- Increased transmission
- Changes in susceptibility
- Changes in virulence
- Breach of agent into previously unexposed area
7
Q
Often outbreak patterns and other features can be distinguished visually via an ________________
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- Epidemic curve
8
Q
Define susceptible
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- Lacking sufficient resistance to a pathogen to prevent infection
9
Q
Define index case
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- First known case (not necessarily the primary case)
10
Q
Define exception reporting
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- Where routine disease surveillance exists, exception reporting raises flags when case rates exceed baseline by a predetermined level
11
Q
Define incubation
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- Time lapse between exposure and onset of symptoms
12
Q
Define communicability (period)
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- Ability to spread infection
- Period of time during which the infection may be transferred
13
Q
Define latent period
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- Time lapse between exposure and communicability
14
Q
Define generation time
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- Time lapse between onset of infectiousness in a source case to onset of infectiousness in a secondary case
15
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Describe vectors versus vehicles
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- Vectors (alive): birds, deer, insects, humans
- Vehicles: air, water, surfaces, anything
