After studying the course student will be able to:
• Describe the health care delivery system and health information system of the country
and the state and its functioning.
• Describe the National Health Programmes relevant to the community, family and
individual.
• Enunciate the principles and components of primary health care and national health
policies to achieve the goal of ‘Health, for All’.
• Outline the demographic pattern of the country, and appreciate the roles of the
individual, family, community and social-cultural milieu in health and disease
• Types of health services, public, private, scientific, traditional health system.
• Organization of public services in health, central, provincial and local levels.
• Burden of disease, concept of health needs for care,
• Levels of health care, primary, secondary and tertiary,
• Planning of health services,
• Organisation of health services,
• Implementation and evaluation of health services,
• Management of resources in health services,
• Financial management.
• Health education and social cultural concept in health,
• Ethics in Health Services.
• Theories of learning facilitations
• Cognitive, Psychomotor domain & effective domain
• Bloom taxonomy
HISTORY OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE
Definition, concept of Health & illness of diseases
Natural History of diseases, levels & prevention
ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION & MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
water
waste disposal
Environmental problems & pollution
GENETICS
Prevention of genetic diseases
Genetic counseling
General Epidemiology
DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY
Time
Place
Person
ii) Analytical epidemiology
a) Case control
b)Cohort studies
iii)Experimental Epidemiology randomized control trial
Systemic epidemiology
i)Vector borne diseases
ii)Water borne diseases
iii)Air borne diseases
iv)Contact diseases
v)Diseases of major public health
Importance along with national
Health programs wherever
Applicable
Non-communicable diseases:
i)Diabetes
ii)Hypertension
iii) Heart diseases
IV) Blindness
v) Accidents
vi) Geriatric problems
Occupational Health problems:
M.C.H. and family welfare
Programmes
Health care delivery in the community
National Health Policy
National Health programmes including
Rehabilitation, Evaluation of Health
Programmes, Health Planning Organization,
Structure of Health care system in the
Country including P.H.C. district level
State level and central level.
ii) P.H.C. Organization and Function
iii) Role of Non-Governmental Organization
Health Education
i) Principles of Health Promotion
ii) Methods, approaches and media for
I.E.C (Information, Education & Communication)
Medical and Health/Information system
Mental Health
Nutrition