Pop Health Vocab Exam 2
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1. Infodemic An overabundance of information, including misinformation that surges during a
health emergency
2. Social listening the process of gathering information about people's questions and concerns and
circulating narratives and misinformation about health from online and offline data
sources
3. Antigenic drift when viruses undergo mutation
4. Antigenic shift when viruses undergo a major mutation each year ex: flu a
5. Susceptibility populations at risk are more liekly to get sick and more likely to experience severe
illness
6. Pathogenicity the potential ability to cause disease; the more pathogenic an agent is, the greater
the ability it has to cause disease in a sussusceptiable host
7. Outbreak An epidemic that affects a limited geographic area
8. Epidemic Sudden increase in number of cases over what is usually expected
9. Pandemic an epidemic that spreads worldwide
10. Endemic Continual and constat presence of disease within a geographic area
11. Exposure assess- the process of estimating, measuring, characterizing, and modeling the frequency,
ment magnitude, and duration of contact between individuals or populations and po-
tentially harmful agents or substances in the environment
12. Bioaccumulation the gradual accumulation of contaminants, such as heavy metals like mercury and
lead, within the tissues of living organisms
13. Mutagen Radioactive substances found in nuclear waste and radon that alter a person's DNA
14. Carcinogen cancer-causing agents
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1. Infodemic An overabundance of information, including misinformation that surges during a
health emergency
2. Social listening the process of gathering information about people's questions and concerns and
circulating narratives and misinformation about health from online and offline data
sources
3. Antigenic drift when viruses undergo mutation
4. Antigenic shift when viruses undergo a major mutation each year ex: flu a
5. Susceptibility populations at risk are more liekly to get sick and more likely to experience severe
illness
6. Pathogenicity the potential ability to cause disease; the more pathogenic an agent is, the greater
the ability it has to cause disease in a sussusceptiable host
7. Outbreak An epidemic that affects a limited geographic area
8. Epidemic Sudden increase in number of cases over what is usually expected
9. Pandemic an epidemic that spreads worldwide
10. Endemic Continual and constat presence of disease within a geographic area
11. Exposure assess- the process of estimating, measuring, characterizing, and modeling the frequency,
ment magnitude, and duration of contact between individuals or populations and po-
tentially harmful agents or substances in the environment
12. Bioaccumulation the gradual accumulation of contaminants, such as heavy metals like mercury and
lead, within the tissues of living organisms
13. Mutagen Radioactive substances found in nuclear waste and radon that alter a person's DNA
14. Carcinogen cancer-causing agents
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