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136 Cards in this Set
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Imhotep
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Early and near eastern contribution
FOUNDER OF EGYPTIAN MEDICINE |
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Code of Hammurabi
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Early and near eastern contribution
mALPRACTICE = HANDS GET CUTE OFF |
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535 Greek Physicians
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Hellenistic Contribution to medicine
ESTABLISH BRAIN AS CENTER OF INTELLECT |
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Asciepius
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Hellenistic Contribution to medicine
GOD OF HEALING IN GREECE |
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Hippocrates
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Hellenistic Contribution to medicine
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIET AND HEALTH AND SPINAL MANIPULATION METHOD |
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Pythagorean
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Hellenistic Contribution to medicine
WRITE HIPPOCRATIC OATH |
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Galen
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Roman
SPINAL MANIPULATION (C7) HELPS WEAKENED HAND |
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Romans Outlawed:
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Roman
PUBLIC BATHS/ CENSUS/ GARBAGE PICKUP/ WATER&SEWER/BATHING |
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Dark Ages
Disease is supposedly caused by |
Sin
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Dark Ages
Most healers are |
Women
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Mid 14th Century
1348 Big Disease |
Black death, Black plague killed 75 million 1/3 - 2/3 of population
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Mid 14th Century
First Quarantine set up in |
Yugoslavia
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16th Century
Ambrosie Pare |
Father of surgery/use manipulation of vineyard workers
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16th Century
1520 Smallpox |
Kills Aztecs Cortez takes over
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16th Century
Giralom Francastoro |
Epidemic dx caused by spores = germ theory
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17th Century
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek |
first person to see sperm and red blood cells
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18th Century
Giovanni Morgagni |
father of pathology/coor symp during life with autopsy
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18th Century
Franz Mesmer |
Hypnosis to cure dx
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18th Century
Percival Potts |
Corr between scrotal cancer and chimney sweeps
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18th Century
Edward Jenner |
1st small pox vaccine using weaken cow pox
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Mid 14th Century
1348 Big Disease |
Black death, Black plague killed 75 million 1/3 - 2/3 of population
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Mid 14th Century
First Quarantine set up in |
Yugoslavia
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16th Century
Ambrosie Pare |
Father of surgery/use manipulation of vineyard workers
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16th Century
1520 Smallpox |
Kills Aztecs Cortez takes over
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16th Century
Giralom Francastoro |
Epidemic dx caused by spores = germ theory
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17th Century
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek |
first person to see sperm and red blood cells
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18th Century
Giovanni Morgagni |
father of pathology/coor symp during life with autopsy
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18th Century
Franz Mesmer |
Hypnosis to cure dx
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18th Century
Percival Potts |
Corr between scrotal cancer and chimney sweeps
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18th Century
Edward Jenner |
1st small pox vaccine using weaken cow pox
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19th Century
Edwin Chadwick |
Wrote and lead to dev. Gen. board of health in England
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19th Century
Crawford Williamson Long |
1st to perform surgery under general anestesia (ether)
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19th Century
J Evens Riadore |
Nervous energy "of any organ is def.supp.w/nerve E or blood is fx sooner or later become deranged (spinal nerves source nerves)
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DD Palmer Born
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1845
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19th Century
Ignaz Semmeiweis |
hand washing/ savior of mothers
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19th Century
Louis Pasteur |
Heat just below boiling point to kill bacteria
Pasteurization |
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19th Century
John Snow |
father of epidemiology/ adopy hygine and anesthesia
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19th Century
Josheph Lister |
Sterile surgery coined words: asepsis and antisepsis
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19th Century
Rudolf Virchow |
Father of MODERN pathology
cell originated from another cell |
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1882
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BJ Palmer born
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1985
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DD gives 1st adjustment
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19th Century
Wilhelm Rontgen |
x-rays
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19th Century
Rev. samuel Weed |
Created term Chiropractic
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20th Century
Walter Reed |
Yellow fever transmitted from mosquito
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20th Century
Sir Alexander Fleming |
Penicillin
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20th Century
Jonas Salk |
Polio vaccinate (innactive dead virus)
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20th Century
Albert Sabin |
Oral polio vaccine (live virus)
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20th Century
CDC Responsible |
Notifiable dx's
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20th Century
Lyme Dx |
Faster growing infection dx
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1981
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CDC recognizes AIDS
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England's Health Sysem
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-no copay
-no insurance -govt owned hospitals paid out of taxes -no medical bankrupts -Much higher taxes -primary and ER care works well -elective care has really long wait lists -hospitals compete for govt money to survive -gp-paid on fixed amount: ave pat $1800 -Care costs too little -world leader preventative medicine |
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Japan's Health System
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-Long healthy life--lowest infant mortality rate in world
-social insurance: everyone signs up for health insurance, gov pays for poor -private medical centers -go to dr 3x's as often as US--3 minute visits! -No gate keepers -No waiting lists -every price negotiated every 2 yrs fixed pricing -scanning euipment made inexpensively -no profit from insurance companies, can't be denied coverage -hospitals going broke |
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German's Health System
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-Bismark model
-rich can opt out, 90% stay in -market system-private d office and hospitals -private insurers-sickness funds more expensive that japan and UK -Pregnant people pay nothing, everyone else pays co-pay but only every 3 months -standard prices negotiated every year |
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Taiwan's Health System
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-Looked at other countries and developed a compilation system
-no gatekeepy/no waiting time/ clinic open on weekends -has to have smart card, has history and meciation info--automatic bil pay -over 20 times month or 50 times in 3 months govt visits patient -govt borrowing from banks and dont wait to raise premiums |
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______ spread is transmission of an infectious agent by an animate object.
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Vector
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_______ is a factor of resistance
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Normal bacterial flora
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_____ is the climate, temperature, and moisture.
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physical factor
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Epidemics or outbreaks of disease occur when the proportion of susceptible individuals is _____ and increases as the proportion of immune individuals ______?
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High
Decreases |
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Disease ______ requires the total annilhillation of the agent so the epidemiological triangle will never occur.
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Eradication
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When investigating an epidemic, the distribution of cases not characterized by?
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Variable of person
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____ is the expression of the relationship of one part to a whole?
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Ratio
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_____ rate measure the rate of births.
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Natality
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The purpose of an investigation is to describe the when and where a disease outbreak occurs?
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False
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____ is the extent to which a study correctly represents the characteristics of interest?
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validity
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in 1348, the human race came close to extinction due to what disease?
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Bubonic Plague
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I 1987 the Wilk vs. AMA ruling stated that the AMA and its co-conspirators did not conspire to viciously discredit, malign, and restrict expansion of chiropractic.
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False
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Pasteurization is heating of an organic fluid to a temperature to above its boiling point?
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False
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What was the individual who first used either in an operation?
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Crawford W Long
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The definition of health according to the World Health Organization is a "state of complete physical, mental and social well being"
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True
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A medical doctor is trained to identify and prevent diseases in an individual while an epidemiologist is trained to identify and treat disease in a given population?
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True
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A reservoir is a host where a biologic agent cannot Propagate?
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False
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What is a part of the epidemiological triangle?
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Susceptible host
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what was the author of the Hippocratic Oath
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Pythagorean
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Who is one of the co-fathers of Modern Bacteriology?
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Louis Pasteur
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____ is one of the most important epidemiological factors in determining what disease a person acquires?
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Age
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Epidemic curves describe the distribution of cases during long periods of time and can be helpful in determining the source of infection and its mode of transmission?
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False
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The ____ is used to determine the relative importance of dying from a specific disease, in relation to all causes of death in the population?
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PMR
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During the investigation of an epidemic, one must ignore the laboratory data if it does not support the epidemiological data?
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False
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What causes the death of bacteria?
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Bactericidal
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The proportion of individuals in a given population which develop of disease during a specific time period?
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attack rate
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Antibodies from another person or animal that are injected into a human are an example of?
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Artificial passive immunity
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The total number of cases of disease both old and new?
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Prevalence rate
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Specific mortality rate is measured in ____ per population?
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100,000
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To contact or possess a characteristic that is believed to influence the risk of acquiring a specific disease?
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Exposure
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What is NOT part of the Greek influence on public health?
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Punishment of the flesh
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What is not part of the Christian church influence on public health?
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Public baths were outlawed
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What is NOT part of the Dark Ages influence on public health?
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Coined the word Miasma (population)
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who developed the germ theory of disease?
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Girolamo Francastoro
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Called the Father Of Modern Pathology?
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Rudolf Virchow
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The man who wrote "If any organ is deficiently supplied with nervous energy or of blood, its function immediately, or sooner or later its structure, becomes deranged"?
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J. Evans Riadore
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the person who used phenol as a disinfectant in surgery?
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Joseph Lister
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Who was the individual who is given credit for naming Chiropractic from the Greek
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Samuel Weed
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Who was the physician who used killed polio virus to make a vaccine?
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Jonas Edward Salk
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What type of prevention is the early detection and proper treatment of disease?
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Secondary
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What agency is responsible for milk and milk products?
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USDA
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What agency is responsible for compiling statistics on mortality and morbidity and also keeping track of epidemics?
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CDC
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What agency is responsible for water purity and hazardous waste?
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EPA
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What item is performed by a public health agency?
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Assessments
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An epidemiologist studies the variables of a disease within a laboratory setting working with on variable at a time while basic scientist studies disease within the population?
T/F |
Fale
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Viruses are encapsulated genetic material of DNA which are _______ to treat and cause destruction of cells resulting in ______ damage?
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Hard
Permanent |
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Clinical cases are symptomatic individuals that seek medical attention?
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True
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What is a classification of a carrier?
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Subclinical
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What is an example of a portal of exit?
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alimentary tract
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A group of individuals with a specific disease which are very similar in their time and place of occurence or both
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Cluster
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The specific cause of a disease in a population
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Etiology
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The average or normal number of cases of a disease in a certain population
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Endemic
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The level of disease in a certain population that exceeds the endemic level
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Epidemic
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To contact or possess a characteristic which is believed to influence the risk of acquiring a specific disease
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Exposure
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An inanimate object that may carry a pathogen (towel, underwear, etc)
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Fomite
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Resistance to disease
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Immunity
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The body produces its own antibodies naturally. Long lasting.
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Natural Active Immunity
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The body does NOT produce its own antibodies. Short lasting.
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Passive Immunity
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The passage of antibodies from the mother to the body for about the first 6 months of the baby's life. Rich source of antibodies.
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Natural Passive Immunity
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The introduction of an antigen that causes the formation of antibodies. These are called inoculations (polio)
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Artificial Active Immunity
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Someone who can carry and transmit a disease to another person, but who is not experiencing symptoms.
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Carrier
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Antibodies from another person or animal that are injected into a human (tetanus)
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Artificial Passive Immunity
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Total number of new cases of a disease measured within a calendar year
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incidence rate
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The time between contact and demonstration of clinical evidence that a disease is present
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Incubation Rate
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State of illness. The morbidity rate is the number of people that are ill.
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Morbidity
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Death rate. The mortality rate is the number of people deat.
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Mortality
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The probability that an event will or will not occur
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Odds
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The specific characteristics of a disease
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Pathegnomonics
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The worldwide distribution of a disease
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Pandemic
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The worldwide distribution of a disease
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Pandemic
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Total number of cases of disease both old and new
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Prevalence Rate
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The probability that an event will occur during a specific time frame
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Risk
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An ongoing observation of a population used to detect any rapid changes of occurence of specific disease
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surveillance
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The probability of remaining alive for a specific amount of time after having been diagnosed with a particular disease
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Survival
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No specific resistance to a disease
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Susceptibility
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The extent to which a study correctly represents the characteristics of interest
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Validity
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The degree of pathogenicity of a microorganism (AIDS)
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Virulence
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Statistical application pertaining to the vital facts of human existence
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Vital Statistics
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Birth Rate
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per 1000 of population
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Death Rate
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per 1000 of population
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Mortality Rate
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Number of deaths of a specific cause per 100,000 of population
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Infant Mortality
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Single most important factor showing the health of a community. It correlates closely to the availability of housing, pure water, literacy and the ability to achieve economic development.
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