Question 59 · LEK · Incidence rate
In a given calendar year there were 100 cases of X disease in a city of 500,000 inhabitants. Half of the patients died. All the cases occurred in the same city district. Given the circumstances, what else do we have to know to calculate the incidence rate in this district and year?
- A. age structure of the city’s population.
- B. case fatality rate in this district.
- C. that district population in the middle of this year.
- D. duration of the prodromal period of X disease.
- E. no further data is needed to calculate the incidence rate.
Hint
Incidence relates new cases to the population at risk in the same area and period; check which part of that fraction is still missing.
The answer, the explanation and a note on every option are available once you log in. The account is free: topic tests, a mock exam, mistake review and statistics.
More questions on Public health
- Which of the following deaths are termed as premature death?
- Indicate screening tests that will be conducted according to the guidelines of the National Program for Combating Cancer 2016-2024:
- Activities early detecting diseases and their causes make up secondary prophylaxis. Which of the following are part of secondary prophylaxis?
- In a population of 1.000.000 inhabitants 1.000 persons suffer from pancreatic cancer and in this population there were 200 deaths from that disease…
- Which of the following is not a proven risk factor for hospital-onset pneumonia?
- When calculating the incidence rate for a given disease the numerator of the fraction denotes: