In a community, an increase in new cases denotes: (A) Increase in incidence rate, (B) Increase in prevalence rate, (C) Decrease in incidence rate, (D) Decrease in prevalence rate
Answer is A. Increased incident rates show that there is an increase in new cases of that particular disease.
Incidence rate is defined as the number of NEW cases occurring in a defined population during a specified period of time.