Video - Incidence and prevalence
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Both incidence and prevalence are ways to measure the number of people who have a certain disease in a population. More specifically, incidence of a disease refers to the number of new cases that occur in a population over a specific period of time; whereas prevalence refers to the number of existing cases that are found in a population at any given point in time.
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