Emily Oster

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.

American Economist

Tatiana Schlossberg

Knowing how much carbon dioxide the ocean is storing is crucial to modeling future climate changes, and given the prevalence of these creatures around the world and how much water they can filter, it is likely a significant amount.

Bruce Broussard

Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. - as a society and as an industry - we've made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier.

American Businessman

Havelock Ellis

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

British Psychologist

Chrystia Freeland

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.

Canadian Musician

Chris Van Hollen

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

American Politician

Emily Greene Balch

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

American Educator

Iain McGilchrist

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

British Writer

M. S. Swaminathan

My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.

Indian Scientist

Gretchen Carlson

I am saddened by the prevalence of powerful men disrespecting and objectifying women - and getting away with it for years.

American Journalist

Use 'prevalence' to discuss commonality in research or statistics, often in health or social studies.

Context Matters

'Prevalence' can specify where something is widespread, like a region or community.

Location Specific

'Prevalence' often comes with numbers to show exactly how widespread something is.

Quantitative Use

Use 'prevalence' to express how often something occurs, particularly in society or nature.

Frequent Occurrence

'Prevalence' can imply concern when used to describe negative phenomena or trends.

Alarming Trends

Expresses that one thing is more widespread than others when comparing several items or habits.

Comparative Majority

'Prevalence' can highlight how certain items or practices reflect cultural values or changes.

Cultural Reflection

 And if our current model of physics is correct, billions of sub-atomic dark matter particles are passing through the Earth every second. Despite the prevalence of dark matter, its interactions are predicted to be rare and extremely weak. To detect these interactions, dark matter experiments need to be incredibly sensitive. With such sensitive equipment,

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 Some said three. Other researchers said that symptoms were only meaningful if they were highly disturbing to you, but others said minor symptoms were just as important. For many years, because there was no standardization in the definition of PMS, when psychologists tried to report prevalence rates,

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 Haven't said anything about e-cigarettes. But I have to say something about e-cigarettes. We are dealing with an epidemic of kids' use of e-cigarettes. And what troubles us the most, in combination with the rising numbers when it comes to prevalence, is frequency.

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 had a marketing page in which they spent most of their copy talking about the prevalence of cheating and how important it is to catch your partner cheating, including this fine picture of a man who has clearly just caught his partner cheating and has beaten her.

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 This program shows us the overwhelming prevalence of traumatic brain injuries and cognitive deficits and the accumulation of brokenness in the criminal justice system. And it highlights the extraordinary power of resilience and responsibility.

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 including high blood sugar, increased waist circumference, and high blood pressure. It increases the risk of developing conditions, like cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes. And its prevalence is rapidly increasing all over the world.

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 precious asset its human capital my approach however is to seek solutions for relatively less complex problems such as brain function one of the major challenges in healthcare in Palestine is the very high prevalence of clinical

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 with near the prevalence that dogs do so Nora playing the piano could be working on many levels first the piano is a source of music which makes cats happy when Nora is happy she purrs and when she purrs she

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 that's important it's quite quite amazing and you don't think about it but then when you start to think wait a minute some of the fast food people their prevalence in the world and the

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 but millions of parents worldwide continue to fear that vaccines put their kids at risk for autism. Why? Here's why. This is a graph of autism prevalence estimates rising over time.