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sairastavuus — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • morbidity noun The presence of disease or ill health in a person or a population, including how often a condition occurs and how much harm it causes.
  • prevalence noun How common or widespread something is in a particular place or group.

Senses

sairastavuus is used for these senses in English:

  • morbidity (medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
  • prevalence (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

morbidity — full definition

  1. noun The presence of disease or ill health in a person or a population, including how often a condition occurs and how much harm it causes.
  2. noun A gloomy preoccupation with unpleasant subjects, especially death and decay.

prevalence — full definition

  1. noun How common or widespread something is in a particular place or group.
  2. noun In epidemiology, the proportion of a population that has a given condition at a particular point or over a stated period, counting existing cases as well as new ones.

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