An Epidemiologist Studies Rates of Depression in a Community Over

question 117

Multiple Choice

An epidemiologist studies rates of depression in a community over a one-year period. Her calculation of incidence will be based on the

• A) average time between diagnosis and cure.
• B) proportion of people who had ever been depressed.
• C) number of new cases that developed during that year.
• D) total number of active cases on the day of calculation.

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