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Human Biology Form 5 Science

CHAPTER 3: MAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER ORGANISM

EPIDEMOLOGICAL OF SOME TERMS
  1. PREVALENCE:  it is the proportion or percentage of disease in an individual with given disease at a particular time within the environment e.g 10% per year.
  2. CONTROL: it is the putting in place of program to limite the prevalent of a particular diseases
  3. ERADICATION: it is the reduction of the prevalent of a disease to a point where there is continuous absent of transmition within a given area.
  4. INCIDENCE: it is the number of new cases of diseases that occur in a population within a particular area for a definite period of time
  5. SCREENING: it is procedure of indetifing weather there is and infection using laboratory equipment
  6. MORTALITY: it is the number of rate of death within a population, due to a disease in a particular area within a definite period.
  7. MORBIDITY: it is the percentage or proption of individual with the a particular disease within a given population.
  8. EMERGENT: it is a disease that is previously and unrecognise in humans and suddently it break out e.g birth flu
  9. PANDERMIC: it is a disease that is worldwide, it attacks and killed many people. Eg corona virus( covid-19)
  10. ENDERMIC: it is a disease that is always present at low level in a population within a given area an where individual develop a natural immunity e.g malaria.
  11. EPEDERMIC: it is an out break of a disease which occurs suddently and spread rapidly and attacts many people at the same time and killed eg cholera
  12. ZOONOSIS: it is a disease that occurs primarily in vertebrate animals and it occasionally  transmitted to humans
  13. SPORADIC: it is an isolated case of disease which occurs in frequently in a geographically remote area without any clear evidence of their organism
par Claude Foumtum