Basic Statistics: About Incidence, Prevalence, Morbidity, and Mortality - Statistics Teaching Tools What is incidence? Incidence is a measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's probability of being diagnosed with a disease during a given period of time. Therefore, incidence is the number of newly diagnosed cases of a disease. Health, United States is an annual report on trends in the nation's health that examines selected measures of morbidity and mortality, health-care utilization, health risk factors, prevention, health insurance, and personal health-care expenditures (3). The report is compiled by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics for the Secretary of Alcohol use is related to a wide variety of negative health outcomes including morbidity, mortality, and disability. Research on alcohol–related morbidity and mortality takes into account the varying effects of overall alcohol consumption and drinking patterns.