What are diseases called that physicians are required to report the occurrence of? Genetic diseases Chronic diseases Infectious diseases Notifiable or reportable diseases

Notifiable or reportable diseases

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What is the study of where and when diseases occur and how they are transmitted called?

What are diseases called that physicians are required to report the occurrence of?

What term describes death resulting from a notifiable disease?

What term refers to the incidence of a specific notifiable disease?

What is the term for the number of new cases of a disease occurring in a specific population over a particular period?

What term describes the number of cases of a disease in a specific population at a particular time point or over a specified period?

What type of disease occurs only occasionally and affects only a relative number of people, such as whooping cough or diphtheria?

What is a disease called that is constantly present in a certain percentage of the population, like malaria or sickle cell anemia?

What term describes a disease acquired by many people in a given area within a short period, such as smallpox or H1N1?

What is the term for a disease that affects a large geographical area, often on a global scale?

What type of epidemiological study gathers data from participants through measurements or interviews?

What type of epidemiological study involves manipulating study subjects to assess treatments or disease connections?

What is the process of connecting a disease to a specific pathogen called?

What term describes human reservoirs that may have unapparent infections or latent diseases?

What term describes an infected individual who can transmit the disease to others?

What are diseases called that are transmitted from animals to humans?

What are soil and water examples of in terms of disease reservoirs?

What type of transmission requires close association between the infected and susceptible host?

What type of transmission spreads to a host via a nonliving object called a fomite?

What type of transmission occurs via airborne droplets less than one meter?

What type of transmission involves an inanimate reservoir such as water, food, or air?

What are the two general methods by which vectors, such as arthropods, transmit diseases?

What type of transmission occurs when an arthropod carries a pathogen on its feet?

What type of transmission involves a pathogen reproducing in the vector and being transmitted via bites or feces?

What is the term for getting sick while at the hospital?

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