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Social & Preventive Medicine General a8815552

Number of new cases occurring in a defined population during a specified period of time is known as: March 2013

A
Prevalence
B
Incidence
C
Relative risk
D
Attributable risk
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. B i.e. Incidence Incidence is a measure of the risk of developing some new condition within a specified period of time. Although sometimes loosely expressed simply as the number of new cases during some time period, it is better expressed as a propoion or a rate with a denominator.

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