the general population

基本解释

The goal is to keep the disease out of the general population.
衛生部的目標是使普通人群免遭艾滋病毒感染。
Rather than compare the rate of depression and migraine of the relatives to those of the general population, the study compared rates within this isolated population itself.
這項研究沒有將這些親慼的抑鬱症和偏頭痛發病率與普通人群相比較，而是在這個隔離的人群內進行比較。
“People with mental disabilities require even better access to quality health care [than the general population] but this is not the case in most situations even in high-income countries,” he says.
“精神殘障患者甚至需要（比一般人群）有更多的機會獲得優質衛生保健，然而多數情況都不是這樣，甚至在高收入國家也同樣如此，”他說。

But it also represents the result of higher birth rates among Hispanics in the United States compared to the general population.
If you offer life insurance, you have life tables which give you probabilities of dying at various ages, but that's for the general population.
如果你提供人壽險,你會找張壽命表,告訴你各個年齡段的死亡率,但那是針對普通人群的
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Well, this shows what happened in the period after this vaccine was introduced into the general population so that would have been in 1954.
這表明了,疫苗在一九五四年,引入大衆後的一段時間內,發生了什麽樣的情況
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Right now, MRSA, in the general population, is killing about 19, 000 people a year.
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