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communicable disease - ANSWER- specific infectious agent or its toxic products that
arises through transmission to a susceptible host
- decreased morbidity and mortality bc of vaccines and improvement of nutrition and
sanitation and living conditions
- John snow and cholera street pump
- while we are at a prevention, control, and early detection response lots of people die
still mainly in resource poor countries (lots from acute diarrheal deaths)
CD classification - ANSWER- clinical:
diarrheal, respiratory, CNS, cardiovascular, sepsis
microbiological:
bacterial, fungal, viral, parisitic, prion
means of transmission:
contact, food or water borne, airborne, vector, perinatal
reservoirs:
human, animal, soil, water
public health classifications:
STBBI's, respiratory, enteric borne or food borne or water borne, vaccine preventable
Antimicrobial Resistance - ANSWER- organisms change in a way that reduces or
eliminates
natural phenomenon
intrinsic: naturally resistant
acquired: after being exposed is resistant
Why report CD's - ANSWER- reduce the prevalence
it is shared responsibility (local public health departments have the primary
responsibility)
notifiable disease
provincial and territorial and national: dictate which diseases must be reportable and
then they also must report them and submit data annually
PHAC -> WHO
local: active surveillance, infection control nurses
- CHN must monitor and report, education, HP, research, policy
four host factors that influence the spread of disease - ANSWER- 1. resistance: the
ability of the host to WITHSTAND infection
, 2. immunity: a resistance to an infectious agent
3. community immunity: resistance of group of people
4. infectiousness: a measure of the potential ability of an infected host to transmit the
infection to other hosts
Minnesota health wheel - ANSWER-
type of information you can use in surveillance - ANSWER- case definition, contact
definition, contract tracing, mode of transmission, contact identification, active and
passive surveillance
case-finding: locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and connects
them to resources
delegated functions - ANSWER- Direct care tasks a registered professional nurse
carries out under the authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law. Delegated
functions also include any direct care tasks a registered professional nurse entrusts to
other appropriate personnel to perform
innate vs acquired immunity - ANSWER- innate = non-specific and involves protective
mechanisms already present in the body at birth to facilitate immunity (coughing,
sneezing, muscous membranes)
acquired = specific, mechanisms for immunologic memory
- active: protection produced by person's own immune response (natural disease or
vaccine)
- passive: transfer of antibodies produced by one human to another (temporary, breast
feeding, placenta)
anti-vax movement - ANSWER- - comes from Dr. Paul Wakefields that showed link
between MMR vaccine and autism
Local vaccine reactions - ANSWER- Pain, swelling, redness at site of injection; usually
mild, generalized hives
Systemic vaccine reactions - ANSWER- fever
malaise
myalgias
headache
loss of appetite
Anaphylactic vaccine reactions - ANSWER- swelling of the mouth and throat, tingling of
the lips, difficulty breathing
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