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Social & Preventive Medicine Definition and Concepts, Examples from NHPs 40cc497f

High false positive cases in a community signify that disease has:

A
High prevalence and Low incidence
B
High incidence and Low prevalence
C
Low prevalence and Low incidence
D
High incidence and High prevalence
High-Yield Explanation
High Incidence and Low Prevalence Actually when a disease has high incidence and low prevalence, it implies people are getting cured earlier. Low prevalence leads to high false positives as chances of picking a healthy person wrongly is higher. If there is higher incidence but low prevalence, then by the time the confirmatory results come, person has already been cured, leading to a situation of high false positives.

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