Principles and Practice of Community Medicine

SECTION 1: Health and Disease at a Glance
1. History of Public Health and Concept of Community Medicine
2. Health: An Overview
3. Disease Causation and Prevention
SECTION 2: Primary Health Care and its Implementation
4. Concept of Primary Health Care
5. Healthcare Delivery in India
6. Health System in India
7. Health Profile of India
SECTION 3: Planning and Management in Health Care
8. Health Planning
9. Principles of Management in Health Care
10. Health Planning Over the Years in India
11. Health Economics
12. National Health Policy 2002, Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals and National Health Policy 2015 Draft: A Review
13. Evaluation of Health Services
SECTION 4: Health Education and Communication for Behavioural Change
14. Concept of Health Education
15. Techniques of Health Education
16. Role of Audiovisual Aids in Health Education
17. Steps in the Conduct of Health Education
18. Role of Communication in Health Education
SECTION 5: General Epidemiology
19. Epidemiologic Approach to a Disease
20. Measuring Magnitude of a Disease
21. Measures of Disease Frequency
22. Measures of Risk
23. Epidemiological Study Designs
24. Association and Causation
25. Investigation of Epidemic
26. Screening for Diseases
27. Steps in Medical Research
SECTION 6: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
28. Terms in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
SECTION 7: Principles and Practice of Immunization
29. Principles of Immunization
30. Practice of Immunization
31. Vaccination under Special Circumstances
32. Cold Chain System
33. Vaccines in Current Use
SECTION 8: Communicable Diseases
34. Viral Infections
35. Bacterial Infections
36. Parasitic Infections
37. Clinical Syndromes
SECTION 9: Noncommunicable Diseases
38. Hypertension
39. Obesity
40. Coronary Heart Disease
41. Diabetes
42. Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease
43. Cerebrovascular Disease: Stroke
44. Blindness
45. Cancer
46. Accidents
47. Mental Health
48. Alcoholism: Epidemiology and Prevention
49. Drug Abuse: Prevention and Contro
SECTION 10: Medical Sociology
50. Introduction to Medical Sociology
51. Role of Psychology in Medicine
52. Sociology and Society
53. Social Class
SECTION 11: Demography and Health Information
54. Demography
55. Health Information in National Health System
SECTION 12: Family Planning
56. Concept of Family Planning
57. Contraceptive Methods
SECTION 13: Maternal and Child Health
58. Care of the Mother
59. Care of the Child
60. Maternal and Child Health Indicators
61. Preventive Geriatrics
62. Social Problems in Childhood
SECTION 14: Nutrition
63. Principles of Nutrition
64. Nutritional Problems in India
65. Nutritional Factors in Chronic Diseases
SECTION 15: Towards a Healthy Environment
66. Water
67. Water Quality Standards
68. Air Temperature and Monitoring
69. Ventilation
70. Lighting
71. Noise Pollution
72. Solid Waste Disposal
73. Excreta Disposal: Urban and Rural Areas
74. Sewage System in India
75. Housing Standards in India
76. Radiation Hazards: Prevention and Control
SECTION 16: Occupational Health
77. Occupational Health Risks
78. Legislative Measures in Occupational Health
SECTION 17: Genetics and Health
79. Genetic Basis of Inheritance
80. Common Genetic Disorders
81. Application of Genetics in Preventive Medicine
82. Prevention and Control of Genetic Disorders
83. Advances in Genetics
SECTION 18: Role of Biostatistics in Medicine
84. Data Collection and Presentation in Research
85. Measures of Central Tendency
86. Measures of Dispersion (Spread)/Variability
87. Concept of Standard Error
88. Sampling Techniques
89. Statistical Tests
SECTION 19: Medical Entomology
90. Bionomics of Mosquitoes
91. Integrated Vector Control
92. Arthropods of Medical Importance
93. Zoonotic Diseases
SECTION 20: Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
94. Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: A Global Threat
SECTION 21: Hospital Hygiene
95. Hospital-acquired Infections
96. Infection Control in Healthcare Settings
97. Hospital Waste Management
SECTION 22: Miscellaneous
98. Disaster Management
99. International Health
100. National Health Programs in India: A Review
101. World Health Day Themes
102. Essential Medicines and Counterfeit Medicines
103. Legislations in Public Health
104. Urban Health
Appendices
Index