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Epidemiology is the scienti c study of the distribution, causes and control of diseases in the population.

The incidence of a disease is the number of new cases of a condition over a given time period, given as a percentage of
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The point prevalence of a disease is the existing number of cases of a condition at a single point in time, given as a
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percentage of the population. Period prevalence of a disease can be assessed using repeated cross-sectional studies to
nd out the proportion of a population that has the disease over a given time period.

With chronic diseases, the incidence will be lower than the prevalence. With short-term illnesses e.g. the common cold,
the incidence will be greater than the prevalence.

The mortality rate is a type of incidence rate de ned as the total number of deaths attributed to a disease in a given
time period in a population.

The morbidity rate is the rate of occurrence of new non-fatal cases of the disease in a de ned population at risk over a
given time period.

KEYWORDS The median survival denotes how long patients survive with a disease. It is the time period at which 50% of the patients

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Incidence Median Survival

Morbidity Rate Mortality Rate

Prevalence

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