Across
- 8. permanent reduction to zero incidence of a disease
- 9. sickness or any departure, subjective or objective, from a psychological or physiological state of well-being
- 11. the resistance of a pathogen due to the immunity of a large proportion of the group to that pathogen
- 12. death
- 13. number of people suffering from a certain health condition over a specific time period
- 14. Caused by an infectious agent and spread directly or indirectly from people to people, animals to people or people to animals
Down
- 1. the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors which determine the health status of individuals or populations
- 2. restriction of the activities of healthy people because they were exposed to a disease
- 3. a substance that inhibits the growth of bacteria
- 4. a preparation made from a suspension of killed or weakened pathogens or an inactive toxin that stimulates the production of antibodies to protect individuals from infectious diseases
- 5. any microbe capable of causing disease
- 6. measures how many people get a disease, for a specified number of people at risk, for a given period of time
- 7. The average number of years a newborn baby could expect to live if current mortality trends were to continue for the rest of the newborn’s life
- 10. Illnesses that are not spread by any infectious agent