1. Base on the film define epidemiology.

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health related states or events
(including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health
problems. Various methods can be used to carry out epidemiology investigations: surveillance
and descriptive studies can be used to study distribution; analytical studies are used to study
determinants. In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurences of a disease in a
particular time and place. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of
people across an entire continent. Two linked cases of a rare constitute an outbreak.

2. How does case finding and disease survaillance and or help in solving the disease outbreak?

It helps by using it as an early warning system for impending public health emergencies; it also
helps or gives clue to the investigators in to an outbreak, they may not adequately represent all
of the people affected. The reported cases may represent only a subgroup of all the cases, such
as students from a certain school or patients of a health care provider who is particularly
conscientious about reporting communicable diseases to the local health departments to get
the full scope of an outbreak, investigators need to know exactly what types of people are
getting the disease, when they became symptomatic and where they may have been expose.

3. Explain the chain of infection.

The chain of infection is a way of gathering the information needed to interrupt or prevent am
epidemic. Each of the links in the chain must be favorable to the organism for the epidemic to
continue. Breaking any link in the chain can disrupt the epidemic. Which link it is most effective
to target will depend on the organism.

4. Illustrate or explain the procedure during the disease outbreak.

a. Confirmation of outbreak e. Descriptive Epidemiology i. Surveillance

b. Verify Diagnosis f. Generate hypothesis

c. Case definition g. Analytical Epidemiology

d. Case finding h. Evaluate Control measures

5. What are the 3 Levels of Prevention? Give examples in each.

 Primary Prevention Secondary Prevention Tertiary Prevention

Intent Reduce or eliminate causal Early detection and Stop the disease from
risk fcators treatment getting worse

Time Before there is evidence of After a disease has After the disease has been
window the disease begun, but it is diagnosed
asymptomatic

Keratinoc  Decrease UV-  Screening  Follow-up

yte exposure (e.g. program with  Chemoprevention
Cancer clothing, shadow, skin to prevent
examples sunscreen) examinations subsequent tumors
 Chemoprevention
among high risk
groups

6. Identify the function of nurse in epidemiology.

Examine patients and determine potential presence of infection. Assess risk factors within a
patient, a facility, or even a population. Identify areas that need to be modified for better
infection control. Monitor patient care to ensure infection isn't transmitted throughout the
population.

Submitted by: ROFELYN CASUGA BANAYOS

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