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Descriptor English: Prevalence
Descriptor Spanish: Prevalencia
Descriptor prevalencia
Entry term(s) coeficiente de prevalencia
prevalencia por período
prevalencia puntual
tasa de prevalencia
Scope note: Número total de casos de una determinada enfermedad en una población determinada y durante un periodo de tiempo dado. Hay que diferenciarla de la INCIDENCIA, que se refiere al número de casos nuevos en la población y en un determinado momento.
Descriptor Portuguese: Prevalência
Descriptor French: Prévalence
Entry term(s): Period Prevalence
Period Prevalences
Point Prevalence
Point Prevalences
Prevalence, Period
Prevalence, Point
Prevalences
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.985.525.750
N01.224.935.597.750
N06.850.505.400.975.525.750
N06.850.520.308.985.525.750
SP5.467.413.770.861.782
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015995
Scope note: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.
Annotation: IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol; specify geographic term if pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Prevalence Studies (1989)
Public MeSH Note: 90; was see PREVALENCE STUDIES 1989
Online Note: use PREVALENCE STUDIES to search PREVALENCE 1989
History Note: 90; was see PREVALENCE STUDIES 1989
DeCS ID: 28584
Unique ID: D015995
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/09/06
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Prevalence - Preferred
Concept UI M0024452
Scope note The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.
Preferred term Prevalence
Entry term(s) Prevalences
Point Prevalence - Narrower
Concept UI M000731651
Preferred term Point Prevalence
Entry term(s) Point Prevalences
Prevalence, Point
Period Prevalence - Narrower
Concept UI M000731652
Preferred term Period Prevalence
Entry term(s) Period Prevalences
Prevalence, Period



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