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Behavioral Science, Biostatistics, Epidemiology for USMLE/COMLEX

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  1. Incidence rate
    • Number of new cases
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    Attack rate: the incidence for a group with a specific risk
  2. Primary prevention
    Stopping someone from getting a disease - preventing incidence
  3. Prevalence
    • All Cases
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    • Point prevalence: at a particular point in time
    • period prevalence: across a span of time
  4. Secondary Prevention
    reducing the number of cases of disease - preventing prevalance
  5. Tertiary prevention
    Decreasing the negative effects of the disease = increasign quality of life
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Behavioral Science, Biostatistics, Epidemiology for USMLE/COMLEX
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