Epidemiology: Ch. 14 Review 2024/2025 Exam Questions and Detailed Answers | Get it 100% Correct Answers

Epidemiology: Ch. 14 Review 2024/2025
Exam Questions and Detailed Answers |
Get it 100% Correct Answers


Epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the study of where and when diseases occur, and

how they are transmitted within populations.

incidence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔new cases in a given place and time

prevalence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔total cases in a given place and time

endemic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a disease that normally occurs at a relatively stable

incidence within a given population or geographic area

sporadic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a disease that occurs when only a few scattered cases

occur within a population.

epidemic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Whenevere a disease occurs at a greater frequency

than is normal for that population

pandemic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔when a disease occurs simultaneously on more than

one continent

CDC - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Center for Disease Control and Prevention

-headquarters and clearinghouse for national epidemiological research
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, MMWR - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Modes of disease transmission - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-contact transmission

-vehicle transmission

-vector transmissoin

contact transmission - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-direct contact

-indirect contact

-droplet transmission

direct contact - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔handshaking, kissing, sexual intercourse, bites

-Cutaneous anthrax

-genital warts

-gonorrhea

-herpes

-rabies

-staphylococcal infections

-syphillus

indirect contact - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔drinking glasses, toothbrushes, toys, punctures

-common cold

-enterovirus infections


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