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HMP 674 True and False Questions And Answers The ratio of a disease's prevalence to its incidence is constant. - ANS-FALSE. Prevalence refers to the proportion of a population that has a disease, while the incidence is the rate of new infections. Imagine a highly infectious disease that is just starting to emerge in a population; the incidence will be high relative to the prevalence. Once everyone is infected and no new cases are emerging, the prevalence is much higher than the inciden...