QUESTION 2 Like cumulative incidence, prevalence is a proportion that may range

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QUESTION 2 Like cumulative incidence, prevalence is a proportion that may range from zero to one O True False QUESTION 3 The number of newly diagnosed cases of invasive female breast cancer in Arkansas as reported to the Arkansas Department of Health Cancer Registry in 2012 (1,952), over the number of women in the State by June 30, 2011 (1,500,877) for and age-adjusted figure of 109 cases per 100,000 women, is an example of which of the following measures of disease occurrence? Oa. Point Prevalence b. Incidence .Risk or Cumulative Incidence d. Period Prevalence QUESTION 4 Prevalence is a more useful measure for health planning than for etiologic research True False

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Ans 2 : True

Both cumulative incidence and prevalence have values tanging from zero to one . They can also be expressed in percentage (%).

The prevalence is usually used to determine the proportion of population which is affected by the disease at a certain time.

It is given as :

Prevalence = Number of affected people / total number of people

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