Week 8: Epidemiology Of Communicable Diseases

Question 1

What is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events, and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems?

Answer 1

Epidemiology

Question 2

What is the basic model to study health problems?

Answer 2

Epidemiological triangle

Question 3

3 factors in the epidemiological triangle

Answer 3

• Host
• Environment
• Agent

Question 4

What is the characteristic of an agent that embodies capability of entering, surviving, and multiplying and causing disease in a susceptible host?

Answer 4

Infectivity

Question 5

What is the ability or extent to which a substance is able to stimulate an immune response?

Answer 5

Immunogenicity

Question 6

What do you call a period in which the infection is present in the host without producing overt symptoms?

Answer 6

Latency

Question 7

What is the ability to cause disease?

Answer 7

Pathogenicity

Question 8

What do you call the ability of bacteria and other microorganism to resist the effect of an antibiotic to which they were once sensitive?

Answer 8

Resistance

Question 9

What do you call the degree of pathogenicity or disease-producing ability of a microorganism?

Answer 9

Virulence

Question 10

What is the capacity to produce toxin?

Answer 10

Toxigenicity