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| aggregate of cases of a disease or other health related conditon particularly cancer or birth defects. they are closely grouped in time or space/location |
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a disease of siginificanty greater prevalence than normal
more than expected # of cases
a disease that spreads rapidly through a demographic segment |
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continuing problem involving normal disease prevalence
the expected # of cases indigenous to a population or geographic area. |
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| affecting a large proportion of geographic population of a country, continent, people, or the world |
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disease
departure from well-being |
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| numerical ratio where # of actual occurances appears as numerator over possible occurances as denominator |
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| persons in community or population group thata can acquire a disease or condition |
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