other vocab Flashcards
infant mortality rate
ratio of death to birth
Determinant
anything that fits the criteria of changing (increasing or decreasing) the risk of someone to develop a disease.
Pathogenicity
the ability for an organism to cause a disease.
Virulence
how severe is the infection?
Infectivity
capacity to cause infection in a susceptible host
Sensitivity
the ability of a test to diagnose a patient with the disease as postive. This will prevent any diseases getting miss diagnosed. (highier senstivity = more accuracy)
isolation
isolating people who we know are sick because of an infectious disease
quarantine
isolating people who we know are exposed to the risk factor which causes the infectious disease or the disease itself
specificity
the test’s ability to diagnose a patient’s resolve as negative. (meaning it won’t mistakenly diagnose the patient as positive) higher specificity = more accuracy
point prevalence
amount of people who are infected by a certain disease at a SPECIFIC point in time.
agent
cause of a disease
Holoendemic
when everyone in a population is infected
Hyperendemic
a disease that’s constantly present in large amount in a area
Sporadic
a disease which occur extremely randomly
morbidity
transition from healthy to unhealthy in a population
