L4.2.2: Types of Disease Epidemiology

• Types of Disease Epidemiology

  1. Communicable Disease

  2. Non-Communicable Disease
• ● Communicable Disease

  ○ Brought by a specific infectious agent or its toxic products capable of being directly or indirectly transmitted from man to man, animal to man, animal to animal, or from the environment.

  ○ Usually acute.
• ● Communicable Disease

  ○ Only two are CHRONIC

  ■ HIV/AIDS - May be HIV Positive with no symptoms, develops to AIDS over time, targets immune system, host dies from other diseases

  ■ Leprosy (mycobacterium leprae) - usually appears after several years but is now gone from risk since there are vaccines

  ● BCG Vaccine - Ketong - Skin disease that affects nose and ears
• ● Communicable Disease

  ○ Infectious in nature, it develops quickly in individuals, with a rapid onset, and short duration of diseases.
• ● Non-Communicable Disease

  ○ A type of disease that occurs in an individual which cannot be transmitted towards another person

  ○ Chronic in nature, the disease takes place for a long time and progresses slowly.