If your goal is to determine workload and to plan the scope of facilities and manpower needs, particularly for a chronic disease, which of the following types of data would you prefer

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If your goal is to determine workload and to plan the scope of facilities and manpower needs, particularly for a chronic disease, which of the following types of data would you prefer?

  a.

Natality (birth data)

  b.

Mortality data

  c.

Prevalence data

  d.

Incidence data 

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Natality is the ratio of number of births to the total size of population 

Mortality data is the information about total no. Of deaths in a population 

Prevalence data is the presence of disease in a particular population at a specific point of time. 

Incidence data is the addition of new cases of disease in a population at a specific period 

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