Question 71 · LEK · Prevalence rate
Morbidity rate reaches higher values if:
- A. disease has a short duration.
- B. disease has a long duration.
- C. disease is severe and causes more deaths.
- D. the number of the new cases of the disease is low.
- E. the ill are emigrating.
Hint
Remember the approximate relationship linking prevalence, incidence and the average duration of a disease.
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
- What kind of prophylaxis is mass screening according to Bogdan Kleczkowski?
- In the formula for calculating the specificity of the test, the following number of results is entered in the numerator of the fraction:
- For a dataset, the median is the value which:
- The information stating that “in Poland, in week 45 of the year 2020, the total number of deaths among the persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 was…
- The diagram shows two distributions of the same characteristic among adult population of the towns A and B. The difference between these…
- A study was conducted that aimed to identify the risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection among physicians. From the population of physicians in…