Epidemiology Key Terms Crossword

When a disease is always present no matter how small in a community we refer to it as an _____.
If there are usually only 20 cases per year of Measles but in 2021, there were 50 cases of Measles, What is this called?
COVID-19 which affects countries throughout the world is considered a _____.
What is the cause of a disease or health condition?
What is the organism that becomes infected by a disease called?
Where does an agent exist?
what is in the middle of the epidemiological triangle?
The capacity of an agent to enter a host and cause infection: a disease that easily spreads from one host to another has high _____.
When symptoms are very noticeable, the disease has high ____.
The capacity of an agent to produce poison is called ____.
When an agent can survive in many adverse environments, they have high ____.
A type of direct transmission whenever anyone coughs, sneezes, or talks.
A type of indirect transmission spread by food, water, or inanimate objects.
This type of prevention is implemented before there is evidence of disease or injury.
This type of prevention is implemented after a disease or injury is established, the goal is to reduce morbidity or mortality.
What type of prevention is a community-level weight loss program?
When you have been exposed to a contagious pathogen like COVID-19 but not showing any symptoms yet you have to go into ____.
When you have been exposed to a contagious pathogen like COVID-19 and are showing symptoms you have to go into ____.
True positive / (True positive + False negative)
True negative / (False positive + True negative)
Systematic error often introduced by a researcher; two types are information and selection.
The number of existing and new cases of a disease/ health-related condition is the ____.
The number of new cases of a disease/ health-related condition is the ____.
Diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer, or diabetes are ____ diseases.
The incidence among exposed divided by the incidence of unexposed.
Which ratio is used in case-control studies to test the hypothesis?
The leading cause of death with risk factors including hypertension, obesity, and physical inactivity.
The second leading cause of death in the US which has stages 0-IV.
This is a cross-sectional study that uses data that describes groups of individuals.
This study includes individuals used as cases and as controls to test a hypothesis.
A shortcoming of this study is that they are not well-suited for studying very rare diseases and are also time-consuming and expensive. These studies can be performed in the past or future.
The goal of this study is to monitor a population to gather the information that can be used to prevent health threats. There are two kinds: passive and active.
The first point when an individual is exposed to or infected by a disease; point of ____.
When you are fully recovered from the disease or infection you just experience is the ____ period.
The point of the first symptom of a disease or infection is the ____ point.