Preventive Medicine Flashcards
particles of contagion (seeds or seedlets)
seminaria
louis pasteur
1822-1895
germ theory
louis pasteur and robert koch
most difficult risk factor to change
genetics
easiest risk factor to change
immunologic
example of chronic carrier
typhoid mary
refers to the time during which an infectious agent can be transmitted directly or indirectly from an infected person to another person, form an infected animals to humans or from infected human to animals
period of communicability
ensuring that quarantined people do not infect others if they have been exposed to a contagious disease
incubation period
top 1 leading cause of morbidity
acute respiratory infection
top 3 leading cause of morbidity
ARI
hypertension
animal bites
the period between the receipt of infection by the host and the maximal communicability of that host
generation time
inferential statistics of case control
odds ratio
the proportion of risk reduction attributable to the intervention as compared to a control
relative risk reduction
most sensitive index of assessing health status in the community
infant mortality rate
sensitive indicator of standard of health
swaroop’s index
