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prevalence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔number of existing cases / number of
population
incidence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔number of new cases / number of persons at
risk of developing disease
relationship between incidence and prevalence - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔prevalence = incidenceXduration
relationship between incidence rate and mortality rate - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔mortality rate easier to obtain than incidence
- use when case-fatality rate is high
- use when duration of disease is short
, importance of surveillance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- monitor changes in disease
frequency
- monitor changes in levels of risk factors
- conducted for infectious disease
passive surveillance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- disease reporting is mandated or
requested with responsibility for reporting often falling on health care
provider or health officer
- depends on individual and staff
- relatively inexpensive
- easy to develop initally
active surveillance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- project staff recruited to carry out
surveillance program
- more accurate b/c it is conducted by individuals who have been
specifically employed to carry out responsibilities
numerator - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔number of health events
denominator - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔population at risk