Descriptive epidemiology is used to evaluate trends in health and disease and to be able to make comparisons among the population and subgroups within countries; and to provide a basis for planning, provision, and evaluation of services.
Your task:
As a health officer, you have been asked to collect information to characterize and summarize tuberculosis epidemic in your state.
Write a 2-3 page paper in which you do the following:
Discuss the pattern and distribution of the disease in the population of your state as well as subgroups within the state.
What recommendations would you make to your administrator based on your findings?