Data on incidence and prevalence of diseases are needed to characterize the health of a population. Public health organizations oversee these efforts. The public health staff need to have a community diagnosis to set priorities. The key to this diagnosis is incidence and prevalence of diseases and the occurrence of risk factors in the population.
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Olsen, J., Christensen, K., Murray, J., & Ekbom, A. (2010). Descriptive Epidemiology in Public Health (pp. 29–35). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1497-2_5
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