Question

In order to understand the full scope of a disease, we take its occurrence into account. The __________ of a disease is the number of people in a population who develop a disease at a specified time.

a. incidence
b. PREVALENCE
c. endemic infection
d. sporadic infection

Answer 1

Answer: b. PREVALENCE

Step-by-step explanation:

Prevalence can be defined as the proportion of individuals in a population having a disease or common characteristic. Prevalence of a particular disease is number of people in a population who have develop a disease at a particular time.

It can be expressed in form of proportion Which equals the number of developed cases at a particular time divided by the total number of population.