Epidemiology Flashcards
This is the study of the behavior of disease on the community rather than in individual patients.
Epidemiology
The main goal is to control and prevent the spread of disease.
Epidemiology
These are the three (3) components of epidemiology.
Population, Distribution, and Risk Factors
These are the uses of epidemiology.
Identify the etiology, determine the prognosis, and identify the risk factor.
This is the sudden increase in the incidence of a diseases above the usual expected rate.
Epidemic
This is the rate of which a disease proliferates.
Endemic Rate
True or False: In an epidemic it is crucial to think WHO is getting the disease, WHERE is the disease, and WHY did the outbreak happen.
False, it’s WHO, WHERE, and WHEN.
This community reaction happens in the occurrence of few and unrelated cases.
Sporadic
This community reaction happens due to constant occurrence.
Endemic
This community reaction happens in the occurrence of several cases of a disease.
Epidemic
This community reaction happens when there is an epidemic involving multiple countries.
Pandemic
This a disease surveillance category made by the government before many people start dying.
Notifiable Disease
This monitor trends in the endemic disease and control objectives and needs timely reporting to allow public health officials to detect epidemics in its early stages.
Notifiable Diseases
This person is the father of modern epidemiology for his work in tracing specific outbreak sources in England.
John Snow, 1854
This person conducted studies about cholera and creates spot maps.
John Snow, 1854
This is the causative agent for cholera.
Vibrio Cholerae
This is a fatal intestinal disease that was rampant during the early 1800’s in London and was commonly thought to be caused by bad air from rotting matter.
Cholera
These are the two ways on how intervention evaluation can be conducted.
Stop exposure to large scale contaminated water and stop exposure to the entire area specific water supply.
This is any element, substance, or force whether living or non-living thing. The presence or absence can initiate or perpetuate a disease process.
Agent
This type of agent is a physical or mechanical in nature that can live in extreme temperatures or light electricity.
Living or Non-living Agents
This type of agent can either be endogenous or exogenous.
Chemical Agents
This is described as the time from exposure to the first or earliest symptom.
Incubation
This type of incubation is the time of exposure to a pathogenic organism and the onset of symptoms of a disease.
Clinical Incubation Period
This type of incubation is the time taken by the parasite to complete its development in the definite host.
Biological Incubation Period