other vocab

Question 1

infant mortality rate

Answer 1

ratio of death to birth

Question 2

Determinant

Answer 2

anything that fits the criteria of changing (increasing or decreasing) the risk of someone to develop a disease.

Question 3

Pathogenicity

Answer 3

the ability for an organism to cause a disease.

Question 4

Virulence

Answer 4

how severe is the infection?

Question 5

Infectivity

Answer 5

capacity to cause infection in a susceptible host

Question 6

Sensitivity

Answer 6

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)

Question 7

isolation

Answer 7

isolating people who we know are sick because of an infectious disease

Question 8

quarantine

Answer 8

isolating people who we know are exposed to the risk factor which causes the infectious disease or the disease itself

Question 9

specificity

Answer 9

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

Question 10

point prevalence

Answer 10

amount of people who are infected by a certain disease at a SPECIFIC point in time.

Question 11

agent

Answer 11

cause of a disease

Question 12

Holoendemic

Answer 12

when everyone in a population is infected

Question 13

Hyperendemic

Answer 13

a disease that’s constantly present in large amount in a area

Question 14

Sporadic

Answer 14

a disease which occur extremely randomly

Question 15

morbidity

Answer 15

transition from healthy to unhealthy in a population