Prevalence
Tuberculosis
• Map of global prevalence of tuberculosis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
The prevalence is an epidemiological term referring to the proportion that reflects total disease/condition burden in a population at a specific time.
There are different kinds of prevalence:
- point prevalence is the amount of disease at one point in time
- period prevalence is prevalence over a specific period of time
- lifetime prevalence relates to events over the entire lifetime of people in a population