Module 2

Question 1

What is the definition of a disease?

Answer 1

Question 2

What is the definition of an infectious disease?

Answer 2

Question 3

What are the three different classification systems of diseases?

Answer 3

Question 4

What are some the three forms of direct transmission and the three forms of indirect transmission?

Answer 4

Question 5

What is the definition of a communicable disease?

Answer 5

Question 6

What is the definition of an infection?

Answer 6

Question 7

What is the definition of a vector of an infection?

Answer 7

Question 8

What is the definition of an endemic?

Answer 8

Question 9

What is the definition of an epidemic?

Answer 9

Question 10

What is the definition of a pandemic?

Answer 10

Question 11

What is the definition of an exotic disease?

Answer 11

Question 12

What are the four states an infection can be in? Is this fully correct?

Answer 12

Question 13

What are the two medical states the disease can be in?

Answer 13

Question 14

What does Diseased/clinical infection mean?

Answer 14

Question 15

What does the Latent infection/subclinical infection mean?

Answer 15

Question 16

What are primary and secondary cases?

Answer 16

Question 17

How can infectious diseases be controlled? (Name 4)

Answer 17

Question 18

What is the SEIR framework?

Answer 18

Question 19

What can be told about the reproductive rate?

Answer 19

Question 20

What are the three elements you’d like to balance in creating a mathematical model?

Answer 20

Question 21

What are the two reasons to create mathematical models?

Answer 21

Question 22

What is the meaning of R_0?

Answer 22

Question 23

When is a model good?

Answer 23