Epidemiology

Are infectious and have symptoms

• Active Carrier

• Epidemic

• Vector

• Endemic

Rates of illness or disease

• Incidence Rate

• Prevalence Rate

• Morbidity

• Mortality

Birth and death rates

• Morbidity Rate

• Incidence Rate

• Prevalence Rate

• Mortality Rate

Probability of an adverse event

• Incidence Rate

• Risk

• Prevalence

• Analytical Epidemiology

Mechanism for the ongoing collection of community health information

• Surveillance

• Epidemiological Triangle

• Descriptive Epidemiology

• Endemic

An organized method of investigation of a disease that includes agent, host, and environment

• Surveillance

• Descriptive Epidemiology

• Epidemiological Triangle

• Prevalence Rate

Number of all cases of a specific disease or condition in a population at a given point in time relative to the population at the same point in time

• Incidence Rate

• Descriptive Epidemiology

• Prevalence Rate

• Risk

Investigates the causes of disease by determining why a disease rate is lower in one population group than in another

• Analytic Epidemiology

• Descriptive Epidemiology

• Pandemic

• Epidemic

Focuses on the amount and distribution of health and health problems within a population

• Epidemiology

• Analytic Epidemiology

• Descriptive Epidemiology

• Pandemic

Study of the distribution and determinants of health and disease in human populations -principal science of public health

• Analytic Epidemiology

• Epidemiology

• Descriptive Epidemiology

• Pandemic