spacer spacer   Glossary/Methodology Terms
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Prevalence

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spacer Prevalence is a measure of the proportion of people in a population who have some attribute or disease at a given point in time or during some time period. Prevalence includes both new (incident) and existing cases of disease. spacer
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Prevalence

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spacer A measure of the proportion of people in a population who have some attribute or disease at a given point in time or during a specified time period.  Point prevalence is the number of cases at one point in time and period prevalenced is the number of cases over a specifed time period (includes both the new [incident] cases over the period and existing cases of disease at a point in time). spacer
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