The measure of the frequency of a health event in a "defined population in a specified period of time" is a:
1. Ratio
2. Rate
3. Proportion
4. Risk
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A rate is a ratio, but it is not a proportion because the denominator is a function of both the pop-ulation size and the dimension of time while the numerator is the number of events.
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