Practice Test 1 Flashcards
What is primordial prevention?
General preventative treatment
What is primary prevention?
Specific preventative treatment
What is secondary prevention?
Screening before symptoms
What is tertiary prevention?
Treating symptoms
What is quaternary prevention?
Preventing overdosing
What are the five carrier types?
There are active, incubatory, chronic, convalescent, and passive carriers. (CIPAC)
What is an active carrier?
Direct passing of infection while exuding symptoms
What is an incubatory carrier?
Direct passing of infection while not exuding symptoms
What is a chronic carrier?
Diseased state lasts for over 6 months
What is a convalescent carrier?
Recovering from diseased state and showing know symptoms but still recovering from the disease
What is a passive carrier?
Carriers without the disease but still spread it to others
What are the parts of the natural history of disease for a patient?
The stage of susceptibility
Exposure
Stage of subclinical disease
Onset of symptoms
Stage of clinical disease
Stage of recovery, disability, or death
STOSES
What is the spectrum of disease?
Range of outcomes of severity and impact of the disease on the carrier
What is the difference between cohort and case-control studies?
Cohort studies separate participants into two groups by exposure while case-control studies separate the participants into two groups by sickness
What is a confounding factor?
When something is causing the disease even though something else has a high measure of association (3rd party factor)
