Module 05: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (Assessment)
A researcher had difficulty in differentiating between prevalence of a disease and incidence of a disease. How would you help him to differentiate between the two:
A. Proportion of the well people to the whole population
B. Proportion of diseased people who develop the disease over a period of time
C. Proportion of diseased people compared to disease-free people in a population
D. Proportion of diseased people at a given point in time
E. Proportion of disease free people and the whole population
A researcher had difficulty in differentiating between prevalence of a disease and incidence of a disease. How would you help him to differentiate between the two:
A. Proportion of the well people to the whole population
B. Proportion of diseased people who develop the disease over a period of time
C. Proportion of diseased people compared to disease-free people in a population
D. Proportion of diseased people at a given point in time
E. Proportion of disease free people and the whole population