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What is prevalence |
Proportion of people with the disease at a specific time |
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What is Incidence proportion or cumulative incidence |
Proportion of people who develope the outcome in a length of time |
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What is the incidence rate |
How quickly people develop the outcome in a population |
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Advantages and disadvantages of the prevalence |
Useful for planning but not useful for identifying causes because it is affected by factors that affect duration |
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How to determine the incidence rate for the general population in Australia |
New cases / (population average x time population observed) |
