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Operational Research—Tuberculosis Overview

M. Manasa Rekha, Mohammed Hassain Majid Khan, Allah Ifatha Mariayam, Tasmiya Sultana, Nesson Rajan, Shabaz Pasha

Abstract


The present review outlined the basic information regarding operational research for successful control of communicable diseases in India with its history of origin, objectives, scope, basic approaches, steps, and principles involved. Also the descriptive critical review on burden of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and COVID-19 burden in India along with present scenario and problems being faced by India over control of communicable diseases in 2020 were also discussed. The present review covered all the possible information regarding operational research which is a distinctive instrument leading to greater benefits for the epidemiologists, health policymakers, health economists, public health specialists to get solutions for the problems and to develop effective methods to solve the problems in timely manner for the relevant problems in public health system, particularly for effective control of communicable diseases.

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Operational research, tuberculosis, India, COVID-19, communicable diseases

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