Question

  What kind of disease frequency measure do the following sentence refer to?

• “An estimated 1.2 million (6%) Australian adults aged 18 years and over had diabetes in 2014”

• “After following a group of women over an extended period of time we conclude that the occurrence of breast cancer is about 40 new cases per 100,000 person years”

• “In a survey conducted in the Western Sydney University Parramatta south campus, on 31st March 2019, 76 staff out of 217 (i.e. 35%) were identified to be over-weight or obese.”

• “In the year of 2018, five (5) female PhD students took maternity leave out of 85 enrolled in higher degree research studies, which is 5.8% per year.”

Answer 1

There are two main measures of diesese frequency. 1) incidence 2) prevalence. The measure used for diabetes is the frequency measure which is determined in the diabetes therapy the patient is receiving.2) The measure used for cancer is the incidence measure,it is used to study cancer. 3) The measure used for obesity is called prevalence measure .diabetes is a disease that affects the body's be ability to produce or make use of insulin,blood glucose levels is usually higher in a diabetes patient. 4) The prevalence measure s used to measure disease frequency during pregnancy.