Global Health vocabulary

Pandemic

• Worldwide outbreak of a disease above the normal number of cases

• A large number of cases of a disease occurring suddenly in a community or region

• Proportion of persons in the population with a certain disease at a specific time

• Sudden appearance of a disease in a specific geographic area

Outbreak

• Rate of disease or sickness in a specified community or group

• Sudden appearance of a disease in a specific geographic area

• Number of deaths related to the size of the population

• Number of deaths or new cases during a specific time