In Public Health is the number of people who get sick within a given territory and in a defined space of time. Disease status. Lack of good health. In Statistics is the percentage of people who get sick from something.
In principle it is a disease state, but it is more used in a statistical sense for the proportional rates between healthy and sick individuals in the same place and time. It has its origin in the Latin morb, um ("disease").
MORBIDITY percentage of people suffering from a specific pathology, in a specific place, and in a given period of time, with respect to the total population of that population.
a number of person who is enfderman in such places and this is measured as the rate of incidence.