UNIT 4 Assignment [40 marks]- contains many calculations- please refer to your lectures and

other sources for the definitions and formulas.

1. At a beginning of a study in 2015, 1,000 men were screened for prostate cancer, and 50 men were
diagnosed with prostate cancer. Over the following 1-year period, 10 more men were diagnosed with
prostate cancer.
a. What was the point prevalence of prostate cancer at the start of 2015? (2)
b. What was the prevalence of disease over the year? (2)
c. What was the incidence of disease at the end of 2015? (2)
d. What are the differences between point prevalence and period prevalence (4)

2. As the environmental/occupational health MPH graduate, you are invited by the local government
to evaluate the disease status of asthma, how would you utilize prevalence to determine this situation,
and explain this measure, and how you could use it. A year later, they want you to evaluate asthma.
See specific questions below:
a. What measure/s of disease frequency would you use, assuming all data is reported for that
year? (5)
b. How is/are the measure/s different? (10)- ANSWER IN A TABLE
FORMAT
c. Explain the uses of prevalence (5)
3. For the community of Students and Staff at UJ campus, please answer the questions below:
a. How would you use the population parameters in your selected community for planning and
delivery of health services?(2)
b. Select 1 demographic measure and show how it can be used in environmental health [3]
c. Select 1 demographic measure (different from the 1 above) and show how it can be used in
occupational health [3]
4. Referencing (2)

How is prevalence and incidence measures for asthma differs.