Incidence and Prevalence, statistics homework help

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Incidence and prevalence are commonly used to measure the existence of disease in a population. In what instances would prevalence be a better indicator of disease burden than incidence? When would incidence be a more appropriate measure?

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Incidence and Prevalence - Outline
Thesis statement: Both incidence and prevalence are measures of health indicators when
measuring health in epidemiology.

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Advantage of prevalence over incidence
A. Measuring the level of spread of an existing condition
B. Helps in adopting control measures

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Advantage of incidence rate over prevalence
A. Better measure of new conditions within a population
B. Age adjustment
C. Helps in adopting preventive measures


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