Prevalence is a measure of disease occurence; the proportion of individuals in a population with a certain condition at a specified point in time (point prevalence) or at any time during a specified time interval (period prevalence).
| Reference description | Miquel Porta (2016). A Dictionary of Epidemiology (6th edition). Oxford University Press. eISBN: 9780199390069 |
| Originally Published | Last Updated | 18 Mar 2025 | 24 Mar 2025 |
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