Phase IFoundation
Background
Overview
This concept is critical for understanding India's public health infrastructure, disease burden estimation, challenges in evidence-based policy formulation, and resource allocation for healthcare. It highlights issues in governance, health policy, data management, and Centre-State relations in a vital sector.
Disease surveillance is the continuous, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data, essential for planning, implementing, and evaluating public health practices. Notifiable diseases are conditions that, by law, must be reported to public health authorities, enabling timely intervention and control of public health threats.