Tag: Prevalence

PREVALENCE OF COMORBIDITIES IN SOCIALLY ASSISTED PATIENTS IN THE SANODENTAPRIM PROGRAMME

Introduction: Once with the growth of the population’s life expectancy in the world but also in Romania, the patients in dental offices often suffer from associated diseases for which they are under constant medication. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the prevalence of the associated diseases and of constant medication for a group of […]

Is Comparison of the Prevalence of Disease Appropriate as Health Indicator between two Populations?

Introduction: Prevalence is the most frequently used health indicator in order to assess the magnitude of a disease in a public health environment. It is a fraction that relates the number of screened disease cases divided by the total number of screened cases. When comparing two different study populations it is not possible to predict […]