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Cards In This Set
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The study of disease patterns in populations.
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Epidemiology
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Diseases that can be transmitted from one host to another?
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Contagious (communicable)
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Diseases that cannot be spread from one host to another?
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Non-communicable diseases
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Give 2 examples of communicable diseases.
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Influenza, measles
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Give 1 example of a non-communicable disease.
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Tetanus
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% of people who become ill after exposure to infectious agent?
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Attack rate
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# of new cases in a specific time period?
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Incidence
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Total # of cases at any time?
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Prevalence
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Incidence of disease in a population at risk?
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Morbidity
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Overall death rate in population?
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Mortality
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% of population that dies from specific disease?
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Case-fatality rate
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These diseases are constantly present in a population.
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Endemic disease
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These diseases occur from time to time.
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Sporadic diseases
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These diseases are ones in which an unusually large # of cases in a population.
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Epidemic
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These diseases are when a cluster of cases during a brief time occur and affect a specific population.
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Outbreak
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