While global TB incidence, death rates and prevalence are falling, new strategies are required if the Stop TB partnership targets are to be achieved.
These initiatives appear to be working, given recent evidence that prevalence of obesity is falling in girls and no longer increasing in boys.
17 Ours is the first survey of childhood asthma prevalence in a Western European population since our previous publication in 2011 12 and gives a novel insight into the burden of childhood asthma; we are confident that the prevalence of childhood asthma is falling and the trend since 2004 suggests that a further fall might be anticipated.
FGM prevalence has been falling among the young in some countries – albeit not as quickly as desired.
Scrutiny of the last 2 years, 1997 and 1998, in which increased folic acid intake might be expected to have had an effect, did not give any indication that the prevalence of NTD was falling.
Despite advances in treatment, there is little evidence that prevalence rates of mental illness are falling.
Where some autoimmune diseases are increasing, others are declining for instance, the prevalence of RA appears to be falling in the population, she says.
In the years leading up to the Great Recession the prevalence of unmet medical need was falling at 0.4% points (95% CI: −0.16 to −0.58) each year (Table 1).
As an increased risk of breast and endometrial cancer is observed in past users of at least some hormonal preparations by post-menopausal women, it is important to take this into account, especially as the prevalence of current use has been falling dramatically in the UK since around 2000 1.
The number of people in Europe with dementia, for example, is currently about 7.7 million and may double by 2050 (Radbruch & Payne, 2009), although the incidence may be falling and the prevalence in the older population may be closer to 6.5% than to the 8.3% sometimes quoted (Matthews et al., 2013).
