Final

Question 1

John Graunt

Answer 1

Bills of Mortality - mortality data, patterns of birth/death/disease

Question 2

William Farr

Answer 2

father of modern vital statistics and surveillance. system collection/analysis of Britian’s mortality rates - developed basic principles in vital statistics and disease classification

Question 3

John Snow

Answer 3

father of epidemiology - discovered cause of disease of cholera to prevent reoccurence

Question 4

Florence Nightinggale

Answer 4

plan for reform for health in army - nurse/epidemiologit - monitored disease mortality rates with improved sanitary conditions - showing lower death rates

Question 5

Epidemiologic Triad Model

Answer 5

Host, Agent, Environment. an environment where host/agent are brought together to make disease

Question 6

wheel of causation

Answer 6

host core - with social physical and biological environemtn surrounding

Question 7

web of causation

Answer 7

complex group of subjects and relationships that can contribute to occurence and spread of disease

Question 8

Leavell and Clark’s Natural History of Disease Model

Answer 8

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary prevention. course disease takes in individual people from its pathological onset until eventual resolution through complete recovery or death. Prepathogenesis - and period of pathogenesis.

Question 9

Infectious disease

Answer 9

present and replication of an infectious agent in tissues of a host, with manifestation of signs and symptoms

Question 10

Communicable Disease

Answer 10

portal of exit from infected person/animal, means of transmission, portal of entry to a susceptible host

Question 11

Airborne transmission

Answer 11

TB, Ebola

Question 12

Direct Contact

Answer 12

STD

Question 13

Indirect Contact

Answer 13

malaria

Question 14

droplet

Answer 14

flu, measles

Question 15

Chlamydia

Answer 15

no symptoms - cervitis, urethritis, pyuria, dysuria, urinary frequency

Question 16

Gonorrhea

Answer 16

abd. pain, vaginal/pelvic pain, discharge, fever

Question 17

Syphilis

Answer 17

sores, skin rash

Question 18

HPV

Answer 18

warts, itching

Question 19

HIV

Answer 19

abd. pain, fatigue, diarrhea, n/v, sores in groin, ulcers in mouth

Question 20

Herpes

Answer 20

cold sores, fever blisters, genital sores

Question 21

Hepatitis B

Answer 21

fatigue, loss of appetite, yellow skin

Question 22

Changes in disease pattern over years

Answer 22

noncummincable disease are more popular than infectious now

Question 23

Rate

Answer 23

primary measurement used to describe either the occurence or existence of a specific state of health or illness

Question 24

epidemiology

Answer 24

study of distrubtion and determinants of states of health and illness in human populations

Question 25

risk factor

Answer 25

characteristics or events that have been show to increase the probability that a specific disease or illness will develop

Question 26

incubation period

Answer 26

time period between initial contact w/ infectious agent and appearance of first signs/symptoms of disease

Question 27

Carrier

Answer 27

person/animal who harbors an infectious organism and transmits the organism to others while having no symptoms of the disease