Terrence Howard plays a music mogul in a new series on Fox. CHICAGO â In the presidential suite of a Hilton hotel, above a ballroom full of extras waiting to shoot a lavish party scene, sat the two lead actors of âEmpire,â a new Fox series about a feuding entertainment-industry family.
Prevalence is a statistical concept referring to the number of cases of a disease that are present in a particular population at a given time, whereas incidence refers to the number of new cases that develop in a given period of time.
It is thus a proportion, rather than a rate, although you may sometimes see it called a rate.. Prevalence provides a good way to indicate the burden of disease in a population. It is influenced by the incidence and by the duration of the condition: under most circumstances, prevalence = incidence Ã disease duration. MORTALITY RATE. The number of deaths per thousand population per year: in effect, the incidence of death in a population. It can refer to all causes of death, or can be a cause-specific mortality rate.