Shipboard preventative medicine and immunizations

Discharge Planning correct answer: Reduce hospital length of stay; Improve the co-ordinationg of service following discharge. Airborne correct answer: Infectious agent that remains infectious over long distances when suspended in the air. Center For Disease Control and Prevention ; CDC correct answer: A Federal Agency of The U.S Government that provides investigation, identifications, prevention, and control of disease. Cohorting correct answer: The practice of grouping patients inf...

Preventative Medicine terms C**rier - is a person or animal that harbors a specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible clinical disease. correct answer: Carrier Preventative Medicine terms Com***icable dis**se - An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person, animal or inanimate source to a susceptible host; either directly or indirectly through an intermediat...

Carrier correct answer: Person or animal that harbors specific infectious agent in absence of discernible clinical disease Communicable disease correct answer: a disease that is spread from one host to another Epidemic correct answer: A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease. Mantoux Tuberculin Skin Test correct answer: Standard method for detecting TB infection since 1930s STI correct answer: sexually transmitted infection; contagious disease transmitted by sexual contact...