Epidemiology and Community Medicine: Course content (MLEC-513)

 Introduction to epidemiology

• Determinants
• Primary
• Secondary
• Clinical epidemiology
• Occupational epidemiology
• Importance of epidemiology
• Definitions of common terms related to epidemiology?
• Health Indication
• Concept of Health and Disease
• Definition of health (Dimensions, physical, mental, social and spiritual).
• Spectrum of health, Determinants of health.
• Responsibility for health
• Indicators of health
• Concept of disease
• Concept of causation (all theories including ecological triad, (agent, host & environmental factors)
• Spectrum of disease
• Iceberg phenomenon

• Natural history of disease
• Levels of prevention
• Disease elimination and eradication
• Disease surveillance
• Introduction to Public Health and Health Systems in Pakistan
• Background and concepts: Definitions and concepts in Public health
• Development of public Health in Pakistan
• Economics and Health
• Health policy and planning in Pakistan. “Health for all” background, concepts and progress.
• Primary Health care”: Concepts and progress.
• The national disease control programs; polices, strategies and operations.
• Health system in Pakistan: The role of Federal and Provincial Governments in Health care.
• The district health system, in the context of devolution
• The physician as a manager: Functions of manager, management of material, human and financial resources.
• Leadership and motivation
• Partners in health