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Definition: Prevalence |
PrevalenceNoun1. The quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future". 2. (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population. 3. A superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a preponderance of Blacks in our prisons". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prevalence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from incidence, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time. (references) |
| The number of existing disease cases in a defined population during a specific time period [contrast with incidence]. (references) | |
Medicine | The number of existing cases of a disease in a given population at a specific time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | The total number of accidents and sick persons in a given population at a given time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | The number of cases of a disease in existence at a given time per unit population, usually 100, 000 persons. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The prevalence of a disease is defined as follows:Prevalence =
Prevalence is useful because it is a measure of the commonality of disease. It helps physicians with the probability of certain diagnoses and is routinely used by epidemiologists, health care providers, government agencies, and insurance companies.
- Number of cases of a disease present
- in a population at a specified time
- ---------------------------------------
- Number of individuals in the population
- at that specified time
Prevalence is not to be confused with incidence, which provides a measure of occurrences of a disease in a specified time interval. Prevalence involves all affected individuals, regardless of the date of contraction.
To illustrate, a disease with a long duration that was spread widely in a community in 2002 will have a high prevalence in 2003 (assuming it has a long duration) but it might have a low incidence rate in 2003. Conversely, a disease that is easily transmitted but has a short duration may have a low prevalence and a high incidence.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prevalence."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PR | English | Prevalence rate | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PrevalenceSynonym: preponderance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Generality | Prevalence, run. |
Impulse | Prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette; (gentility); order of the day, cry; conformity; consuetude,.dustoor. |
Influence | Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest. |
Superiority | Noun: superiority, majority; greatness; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility; (rank); Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackajack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prevalence |
| English words defined with "prevalence": Imprevalency ♦ Millennialist ♦ Prepollency, Prevailment, Prevalency ♦ Roturier. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prevalence": accelerated test ♦ Choriambic Metre ♦ Epidemics ♦ feminisation of poverty, FOREST ECOLOGIST ♦ GUILLOTINE ♦ INTENTION ♦ JavaScript ♦ Periodontal Index, Pessimism, Public Health Context ♦ regalia, Roaring Forties ♦ Wetlands. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prevalence": Prevailment. (references) |
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 | Increasing prevalence of high level penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae over time. Streptococci. Credit: CDC. |  | Map of United States showing geographic variation in the prevalence of coccidioidin sensitivity in young adults. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Like stroke, there is a gender difference in the prevalence of hypertension. (references) | |
In 1999, prevalence of heroin use was comparable for all three grade levels. (references) | ||
Seasonal changes in relative humidity also may affect the prevalence of colds. (references) | ||
Business | However enrolment varies across the nine provinces, with some indicating a high prevalence of registration of under and over-aged children in primary schools (Eastern Cape). (references) | |
Children | Kenya | In August the African Medical Research Foundation of Kenya (AMREF) released a study entitled "Sexual Abuse of People with Learning Disabilities." According to the study, there is a high prevalence of rape of persons with disabilities; one survey indicated that numerous rapes occur daily in Makueni District in Eastern Province. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | It is difficult to gauge the prevalence of child abuse, since the Government currently keeps no national statistics on such cases. (references) | |
Congo | There were reports of isolated cases of child prostitution, particularly among the growing numbers of street children; however, the prevalence of the problem was unclear. (references) | |
Economic History | South Africa | As a response to the increase prevalence of diseases such as AIDS, more construction of provincial hospitals will afford opportunities to implement new and affordable technology to replace the current medical waste disposal methods. (references) |
Israel | Legal, regulatory, and accounting systems are transparent and conform to international norms, although the prevalence of inflation-adjusted accounting means that there are differences from U.S. accounting principles. (references) | |
Korea | Korea has a large pool of conscientious, highly educated, enthusiastic, and underutilized women workers who are usually unable to find equivalent employment in Korean companies due to traditional cultural attitudes toward women in the work force and the prevalence of the "old boy network" in Korea's corporate culture. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | Overcrowding contributed to a high prevalence of communicable diseases. (references) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Mitchell's report concluded that the prison is "a university for crime" due to endemic violence, understaffing, underpaid guards, uncontrolled weapons and drugs, an increase in HIV/AIDS, and prevalence of unhygienic conditions such as missing toilets. (references) | |
Benin | In June a medical and dental delegation from a foreign nongovernmental organization (NGO) visited approximately 3,000 prisoners; they noted the prevalence of malaria, hypertension, and vision problems among the prison population. (references) | |
Political Economy | UKRAINE | The weak banking system, poor communications network, difficult tax and regulatory climate, prevalence of economic crime and corruption, non-transparent tender procedures, limited opportunities to participate in privatization, and lack of a well-functioning legal system, all serve to impede U.S. exports to and investment in Ukraine. (references) |
Yemen | Also since August 1998, the government has undertaken periodic crackdowns on the carrying of weapons in Sanaa and other major cities that has noticeably reduced their prevalence. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Sexually transmitted diseases have a high prevalence in the local population. (references) |
Women | Egypt | Sexual harassment is not prohibited specifically by law; there are no statistics available regarding its prevalence. (references) |
Nigeria | However, according to local experts, the actual prevalence may be as high as 100 percent in some ethnic conclaves in the south. (references) | |
Egypt | FGM generally is performed on girls between the ages of 7 and 12, with equal prevalence among Muslims and Christians. (references) | |
Worker Rights | India | The continuing prevalence of child labor is attributed to social acceptance of the practice, to the failure of the state and federal governments to make primary school education compulsory, and ineffective state and federal government enforcement of existing laws. (references) |
Ethiopia | A research study published in 1999 reported that the prevalence of child abuse among urban child laborers is 70 percent, compared with 24.5 percent among non-economically active children from the same urban district. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | I refer to the prevalence of a popular disposition to expect from the operation of the Government especial and direct individual advantages. |
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| "Prevalence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.79% of the time. "Prevalence" is used about 958 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.79% | 956 | 7,607 |
| Noun (common) | 0.21% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 958 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "prevalence": contraceptive prevalence survey. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "prevalence": low-prevalence. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "prevalence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | popullaritet (celebrity, popularity), përhapje (diffusion, dilatation, dilation, dissemination, distribution, divulge, expansion, extension, leakage, occurrence, permeation, pervasion, promulgation, propagation, semination, spread, spreading, transmission, waft), mbizotërim (ascendant, dominance, domination, preponderance). (various references) | |
Arabic | غلبة (predominance, triumph), تفوق (beat, beat all, break, class, distinction, eclipse, exceed, excel, excellence, get the better of, go one better, lick, mastery, outclass, outguess, overpass, overrule, pre eminence, precede, predomination, preponderance, preponderate, seniority, superiority, supremacy, surpass, top, tower, transcend, transcendence), تفش, سيطرة (ascendant, clutch, command, control, dominance, domination, empire, government, gripe, hand, hegemony, hold, mastery, overriding, predominance, predomination, reign, restraint, rule, ruling, weight), إنتشار (currency, diffusion, dispersal, expansion, pervasion, propagation, scattering, spread, suffusion). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | широко разпространение (vogue), преобладаване (overweight, predominance, preponderance). (various references) | |
Chinese | 流行 (modish, Popped, Popping, Prevalent). (various references) | |
Czech | převládání. (various references) | |
Danish | prævalensrate, prævalens. (various references) | |
Dutch | prevalentie. (various references) | |
Farsi | پخش (Diffusion, Effluence), نفوذ (Authority, Dominance, Force, Hank, Importance, Infiltration, Influence, Influx, Osmosis, Prestige, Seepage), تفوق (Advantage, Ascendency, Excellence, Influence, Predominance, Supremacy, Vantage), رواج (Currency, Propagation, Vogue), شیوع (Accession, Breakout, Burst, Outbreak), درجه شیوع . (various references) | |
Finnish | prevalenssi, vallitsevuus (dominance). (various references) | |
French | prévalence. (various references) | |
German | häufigkeit (commonness, frequency, incidence), allgemeine Geltung. (various references) | |
Greek | επικράτηση (dominance, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preponderance). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שכיחות (commonness, frequency, incidence), "שתררות (arrogance, taking control). (various references) | |
Hungarian | túlsúly (excess, excess weight, odds, overfreight, overweight, predominance, predomination, preponderance), dominancia (dominance). (various references) | |
Indonesian | prevalensi. (various references) | |
Italian | prevalenza (predominance, preponderance, priority). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 跋扈 (domination, rampancy), "抜 (excellence, preeminence, superiority), "出 (excellence, preeminence, superiority). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たくしゅつ (excellence, preeminence, superiority), たくばつ (excellence, preeminence, superiority), ばっ" (domination, rampancy). (various references) | |
Korean | 보급 (Dissemination, Pervading). (various references) | |
Manx | cadinaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evalencepray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prevalência, preponderância (overbalance, overweight, predominance, pre-eminence, preponderance), predomínio (dominance, predominance, pre-eminence, preponderance, reign, squirearchy, supremacy). (various references) | |
Romanian | predominare (dominance, predominance), rãspândire (broadcast, diffusion, dispersion, emission, permeation, spread, spreading), extindere (amplification, development, distension, expansion, extension, extent, protraction, spread), dominaţie (domination, dominion, reign, rule). (various references) | |
Russian | распространение (diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, disseminate, dissemination, distribution, occurrence, penetration, pervasion, proliferation, promulgation, propagation, semination, shedding, spread, spreading), господство (dominance, domination, mastery, predominance, raj), преобладание (dominance, predominance, predomination, preponderance, prepotency). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pretežnost, rasprostranjenost (diffusion). (various references) | |
Spanish | predominio (predominance, predominancy, predomination, preponderance, prepotency, reign). (various references) | |
Swedish | prevalens, utbredning (currency, distribution, expanse, expansion, incidence, spread, spreading), allmänt bruk. (various references) | |
Turkish | yaygınlık (currency, diffusiveness, generality, universality), egemen olma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | поширення (amplification, circulation, diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, distribution, occurrence, outspread, pervasion, prevalency, proliferation, promulgation, propagation, spread, spreading), переважання (overweight, predominance, predominancy, prevalency). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thường xảy ra, sự thịnh h nh (currency, rifeness), sự phổ biến khắp, sự lan khắp, sự lưu h nh (currency, rifeness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prevalence": prevalences. (additional references) | |
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"Prevalence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pergamene, prevailence, prevalance, prevelance, prevelence, revalence, revelence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prevalence" (pronounced pre"vuluns) |
| 7 | -e" v u l u n s | benevolence. |
| 6 | -v u l u n s | ambivalence, equivalence. |
| 5 | -u l u n s | ambulance, excellence, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, pestilence, petulance, turbulence, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 4 | -l u n s | balance, condolence, counterbalance, imbalance, parlance, resemblance, semblance, silence, surveillance, unbalance, Valence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-n-p-r-v" | |
-1 letter: relevance. | |
-2 letters: preclean, venereal, vernacle. | |
-3 letters: cleaner, cleaver, enclave, percale, reclean, repanel, replace, valence. | |
-4 letters: careen, carpel, carvel, carven, cavern, cereal, claver, cleave, clever, craven, crenel, eleven, enlace, evener, lancer, laveer, leaner, leaper, leaven, leaver, parcel, pareve, peeler, pencel, placer, planer, prance, recane, relace, releve, repave, repeal, replan, reveal, vealer, veneer, vernal. | |
-5 letters: anele, arpen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-n-p-r-v" | |
+1 letter: prevalences. | |
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