Question

A PHN is studying the rate of H1N1 in the community. If there are five cases of H1N1 in the community of 1,000 people, what is the prevalence rate?

Answer 1

0.5%

Explanation:

The prevalence rate shows the proportion of people that have a disease in a population and to be able to calculate it, you have to divide the number of people that have a disease by the population:

Prevalence rate=(5/1,000)*100

Prevalence rate=0.005*100

Prevalence rate=0.5%

According to this, the answer is that if there are five cases of H1N1 in the community of 1,000 people, the prevalence rate is 0.5%.