prevalence

Examples of prevalence in the following topics:

• Communicating Statistics

  • Prevalence of Self-Reported Obesity Among U.S.
  • Visual representations of quantitative information such as this map, which illustrates the prevalence of self-reported obesity among U.S. adults by state and territory, can make data more understandable for your audience.

• The Vocabulary Epidemiology

  • Incidence should not be confused with prevalence, which is a measure of the total number of cases of disease in a population rather than the rate of occurrence of new cases.
  • Thus, incidence conveys information about the risk of contracting the disease, whereas prevalence indicates how widespread the disease is.
  • Prevalence is the proportion of the total number of cases to the total population and is more a measure of the burden of the disease on society.
  • In epidemiology, the term morbidity rate can refer to either the incidence rate, or the prevalence of a disease, or medical condition.
  • Compare and contrast the following concepts: epidemic, endemic, pandemic; incidence vs prevalence; morbidity vs mortality; incubation, latency, acute, decline and convalescent periods

• Unmarried Mothers

  • One recent trend illustrating the changing nature of families is the rise in prevalence of the single-parent household.
  • The spike was caused by an increase in unmarried pregnancies, which 36% of all births by unmarried women, and to the increasing prevalence of divorces among couple.
  • The prevalence of single mothers as primary caregiver is a part of traditional parenting trends between mothers and fathers.

• Magic and Supernaturalism

  • Supernaturalism refers to any belief system with supernatural forces, such as magic, and, in general, is prevalent in all societies.
  • In general, The term religion is reserved for an organized cult with a priesthood and dedicated sites of worship or sacrifice, while magic is prevalent in all societies, regardless of whether they have organized religion or more general systems of animism or shamanism.

• The Prevalence of Small Businesses

• Liver Function

  • This type of tissue is most common in alcoholic hepatitis (prevalence of 65%) and alcoholic cirrhosis (prevalence of 51%).

• Using Different Kinds of Appeals

  • For the purposes of this section, we will explore the two broadest and prevalent appeals, logos and pathos.

• Additional Reading

• Abnormal Psychology

  • The diagnostic manual includes a total of 237 specific diagnosable disorders, each described in detail, including its symptoms, prevalence, risk factors, and comorbidity.
  • This graph shows the breakdown of psychological disorders from the DSM-IV in 2007, comparing the percentage prevalence among adult males and adult females in the United States.  
  • Major depressive disorder has the highest total prevalence among males and females.

• Introduction

  • We can characterize the whole population in terms of the prevalence of these dyadic "structures. " This is what the density measure does.
  • Such a structure "embeds" dyadic relations in a structure where "other" is present along with "ego" and "alter. " The analysis of triads, and the prevalence of different types of triads in populations has been a staple of sociometry and social network analysis.