Community Medicine (PSM)

Important Topics Of Community Medicine

Lecture 1

Concept of Health and Disease

  1. Defination of health

  2. Iceberg of disease

  3. Epidemiological triad

  4. Levels of prevention https://youtu.be/JFuSO1iU-Po

  5. Modes of intervention

  6. Dimentions of health https://youtu.be/JFuSO1iU-Po

  7. Physical Quality of health index

  8. DALY

  9. Disability rates

  10. Millenium development goal

  11. Primary health care

  12. Types of disinfection

  13. Health education principle


Principles of Epidemiology and Methods

  1. Defination of epidemiology https://youtu.be/RwiQHTrS_RY

  2. Case control study https://youtu.be/q6QiPDUxSTs

  3. Cohort study https://youtu.be/nrBAF0OXKAs

  4. Difference between case control and cohort study

  5. Investigation of epidemic

  6. Carrier

  7. Modes of transmission

  8. Vector born transmission

  9. Randomised control trials

  10. Measurment of mortality

  11. Measurment of morbidity

  12. Immunization schedule of india https://youtu.be/B7C0QLN7BYo

  13. Cold chain

  14. Vaccine vial monitor

  15. Herd immunity

  16. Incubation period

  17. Live vaccine

  18. Dependency ratio


Demography and family planning

  1. Demographic cycle

  2. IUDS

  3. Hormonal contraceptives

  4. MTP

  5. Rhythm method

  6. Eligible couples

  7. Target couples

  8. Advantage and disadvantage of condom

  9. Sex ratio

  10. Dependency ratio

  11. Fertility

  12. Pearl index

  13. Emergency contraception


Nutrition and Health

  1. Visible and invisible fats

  2. Vitamin A

  3. Balanced diet

  4. PEM

  5. Mid day meal programme

  6. Food fortification

  7. Pasturisation of milk

  8. Waterborn diarrhoea


Medicine and social science

  1. Culture, acculturation and social stress

  2. Intelligent quotient

  3. Family

  4. Types of family

  5. Doctor patient relationship

  6. Consumer protection act


Environment and Health

  1. Safe and wholesome water

  2. Sanitary well

  3. Water born disease

  4. Purification of water on large scale

  5. Disinfection

  6. Chlorination

  7. Purification of water on small scale

  8. Air pollution

  9. Prevention and control of air pollution

  10. Types of ventilation

  11. Effects of noise pollution

  12. Biological effects of radiation

  13. Overcrowding

  14. Sanitation barrier

  15. Sulabh sauchalaya

  16. Culex and aedes mosquito

  17. Mosquito control measures

  18. Lice

  19. Ticks and mites

  20. Cyclops


Hospital waste management

  1. Definition

  2. Health hazards of health care waste

  3. Categories of biomedical waste in India

  4. Color coding and types of container for disposal of bio medical waste


Occupational Diseases

  1. Pneumoconiosis

  2. Lead poisoning

  3. Occupational hazards of agricultural workers

  4. Sickness absenteeism

  5. Medical measures to control occupational disease

  6. The factories act


Charts and diagrams

  1. Pie charts

  2. Line diagram

  3. Standard deviation

  4. Standard normal curve

  5. Sampling methods


Communication for Health Education

  1. Types of communication

  2. Health communication

  3. Principles of health education

  4. Practice of health education

Lecture 1

Screening for disease

  1. Difference between screening and diagnostic test

  2. Validity for screening test

  3. Sensitivity and specificity of screening


Epidemiology of communicable disease

  1. Measles vaccination

  2. Rubella prevention

  3. Prevention and control of swine flu

  4. DPT vaccination

  5. Prevention of meningococcal meningitis

  6. Acute respiratory infections

  7. DOTS

  8. DOTS plus

  9. BCG vaccination

  10. Polio vaccination IPV and OPV

  11. Pulse polio immunisation

  12. AFP surveillance

  13. Prevention of Hepatitis B

  14. Oral rehydration therapy

  15. Control of typhoid fever

  16. Vector of malaria

  17. Measurement of malaria

  18. Prevention of human rabies

  19. Immunisation of dogs

  20. Types of tetanus

  21. Prevention of tetanus

  22. Multidrug therapy for leprosy

  23. ARV treatment

  24. Post exposure prophylaxis of HIV

  25. Standard precautions


Epidemiology of Non communicable Disease

  1. Risk factors of CHD

  2. Prevention of CHD

  3. Rule of halves in Hypertension

  4. Risk of Hypertension

  5. Prevention of Hypertension

  6. Prevention of Rheumatic disease

  7. Causes of cancer

  8. Cancer Screening

  9. Screening of DM

  10. Prevention and care of DM

  11. Assessment of Obesity

  12. Prevention of blindness

  13. Prevention of road traffic Accidents


Health Programmes in india

  1. API

  2. National leprosy eradication programme

  3. RNTCP

  4. National Aids control programme

  5. Vision 2020

  6. Universal immunisation programme

  7. National Rural health mission

  8. ASHA Reproductive and child health programme

  9. Janani suraksha Yojana

  10. Integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness ( IMNCI )

  11. Adolescent Health programme (WIFS)

  12. National Mental Health programme


Preventive Medicine in obstetrics Pediatrics

  1. Antinatal Care

  2. Intranatal care

  3. Neonatal care

  4. Low birth weight kangaroo mother care

  5. Baby friendly hospitals initiatives

  6. Growth chart

  7. Maternal mortality rate

  8. Perinatal mortality rate

  9. Neonatal mortality rate

  10. Infant mortality rate

  11. Under 5 mortality rate

  12. School health service

  13. Battered baby syndrome

  14. Integrated child development service

  15. Health of adolescents


Disaster Management

  1. Disaster Management Cycle

  2. Man made disasters


Genetics and health

  1. Klinefelter syndrome

  2. Turner syndrome

  3. Genetic disease

  4. Eugenics

  5. Genetic counselling


Mental Health

  1. Characteristics of mentally healthy person

  2. Warning signals of poor mental health

  3. Alcoholism and drug dependence

  4. Symptoms of drug addiction


Health planning and management

  1. Planning cycle

  2. Bhore committee

  3. Panchayati Raj


Health care of the community

  1. Primary health care Definition, principles

  2. Millennium development goals

  3. Health status and problems

  4. Local dais

  5. Anganwadi worker

  6. Functions of PHC

  7. CHC

  8. Functions of Medical officer at PHC

  9. Health worker female functions

  10. Health worker male functions


International Health

  1. WHO

  2. UNICEF

  3. Indian Red Cross



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