Incidence and Prevalence of Tuberculosis

Running head: INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS
Incidence and prevalence of Tuberculosis
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1INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS
Answer to the question number 1:
The term ‘Prevalence’ can be defined as number of total people who are affected with
a specific health condition or disease over a certain period of time. Generally, it is expressed
as percentage of the total population. On the other hand, the term ‘Incidence’ can be defined
as the probability of the number of people who will develop specific health condition or
disease during a particular period of time (Giesecke, 2017).
Tuberculosis (TB) still remains a one of the most devastating malignancy around the
world. Although the prevalence and incidence rate has dropped significantly over the last
decade. Australia and Peru are no exception to this situation and there is still TB present in a
varying degree.
In Australia, the incidence rate for TB is around 1.7 per 1000 individuals and the
incidence rate increase to 6.8 if it is considered among the 100,000 population
(Extranet.who.int, 2019). For the year 2017, incidence rate among Australian male was at
0.88 per thousand while the incidence rate for Australian female was at 0.78 per thousand. As
per the 2017 World Health Organisation’s country profile, the TB mortality rate in Australia
is 0.22 per hundred thousand population (Extranet.who.int, 2019).
In Peru, the incidence rate for the TB is 37 per 1000 individuals and this rate increase
to 116 if it is considered among the 100, 000 populations (Extranet.who.int, 2019). As per the
World Health Organisation’s country profile, in the year 2017, incidence rate among the male
in Peru was 23 per 1000 population whereas the incidence rate for the female in Peru was 15
per 1000 individuals. In the year 2017, the mortality rate for TB in Peru was 6.8 per 100,000
populations (Extranet.who.int, 2019).
From the discussion in the above section it can be seen that the TB is prevalent in the
continent of Australia. However, Australia is amongst the top countries with very less