Epidemiology

This bingo card has 25 words: The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to control health problems, A disease being transmitted from person to person by means of direct contact, The occurrence in a community or region of a group of illnesses of similar nature, clearly in excess of normal expectancy and derived from a common or a propagated source, The number of new cases of a disease that occur during a specific period of time in a population at risk for developing the disease, The ability of the test to correctly identify those who do not have the disease, Etiology of disease and its relevant risk factors, extent of the disease, natural history and prognosis of disease, existing and newly developed preventive and therapeutic measures and modes of health care delivery, developing public policy, A disease being transmitted due to a common vehicle such as contaminated air or a water supply or by a vector such as a mosquito, A worldwide epidemic, The number of affected persons present in the population at a specific period of time divided by the number of persons in the population at that time, Have the disease and test positive, An action taken to prevent the development of a disease in a person who is well and does not (yet) have the disease in question, The interaction of the host, the agent, and the environment, The resistance of a group of people to an attack by a disease to which a large proportion of the members of the group are immune, Total number of deaths from all causes in 1 year / number of persons in the population, Have the disease but test negative, Involves identifying people in whom a disease process has already begun but who have not yet developed clinical signs and symptoms of the illness, An individual who harbors the organism but is not infected as measured by serologic studies or shows no evidence of clinical illness, The interval from receipt of infection to the time of onset of clinical illness, The ability to distinguish between who has a disease and who does not, Significant mutations leading to rearrangement of the genome that leads to novel antigens, Preventing complications in those who have already developed signs and symptoms of an illness and have been diagnosed, The habitual presence of a disease within a given geographic area, The number of people at risk in whom a certain illness develops / Total number of people at risk, The ability of the test to correctly identify those who have the disease and Diseases that were previously controlled but that have once again become a significant public health problem for a variety of reasons.

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