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Disease Incidence and Prevalence

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It is important that a textbook for a major medical discipline such as family medicine include a discussion of disease incidence and prevalence. This suggests a technical discussion of the basic epidemiology of “diseases” seen in modern family practice. However, the ensuing discussion of statistics and rates must begin with a discussion of patients and their perceptions of “dis-ease.” The second section will introduce the interdependence of epidemiology with family medicine and lead into a definition of the basic epidemiologic concepts: incidence and prevalence.

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Shank, J.C. (1983). Disease Incidence and Prevalence. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4002-8_16

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