Exam Scheme

Note :-

1. Objective type paper.
2. All questions carry equal marks.
3. There will be Negative Marking.

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Syllabus : Community Medicine

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1. Concept of Health and Disease:
   1. Rise of Public Health
   2. Preventive Medicine
   3. Social Medicine
   4. Medical Revolution
   5. Health Care Revolution
   6. Community Diagnosis and Hygiene
   7. Dimensions of Health
   8. Positive Health
   9. Human Development Index
   10. Physical Quality of Life Index
   11. Spectrum of Health
   12. Determinants of Heath
   13. Indicators of Health
   14. Epidemiological Triad
   15. Natural History of Disease
   16. Iceberg Phenomenon of Disease
   17. Concept of Prevention – Levels of Prevention and mode of intervention.

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2. Principles of Epidemiology and Epidemiologic Methods:
   1. Aims of Epidemiology
   2. Epidemiological Approach
   3. Rates and Ratios
   4. Measurement of Mortality
   5. Measurement of Morbidity
   6. Epidemiological Studies
   7. Descriptive Epidemiology
   8. Analytical Epidemiology
   9. Experimental Epidemiology
   10. Uses of Epidemiology
   11. Association and Causation
   12. Basics of Infectious Epidemiology
   13. Disease transmission
   14. Immunity
   15. Immunizing agents
   16. Disease Prevention and Control
   17. Disinfection and Investigation of an Epidemic
   18. Vaccination
   19. Cold chain
   20. Adverse reactions following Immunization.

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3. Screening for Disease:
   1. Concept of Screening
   2. Uses of Screening
   3. Criteria for Screening
   4. Sensitivity and Specificity.

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4. Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases:
   1. Respiratory Infections – Small Pox, Chicken Pox, Measles, Rubella, Mumps, Influenza, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Meningococcal meningitis, Acute Respiratory Infections, SARS, Tuberculosis
   2. Intestinal Infections – Poliomyelitis, Viral Hepatitis, Acute Diarrhoeal diseases, Cholera, Typhoid fever, Food Poisoning, Amoebiasis, Hookworm Infection, Dracunculiasis
   3. Arthropod – borne Infections – Dengue syndrome, Malaria, Lymphatic Filariasis
   4. Zoonotic diseases
   5. Surface Infections
   6. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and Hospital Acquired Infections.

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5. Epidemiology of Non – Communicable Diseases and Conditions:
   1. Cardiovescular Diseases
   2. Coronary Heart Disease
   3. Hypertension
   4. Stroke
   5. Rheumatic Heart Disease
   6. Cancer
   7. Diabetes
   8. Blindness
   9. Accidents and Injuries.

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6. National Health Programmes:
   • Related to Communicable Diseases
     1. National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP)
     2. Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP)
     3. National Filaria Control Programme
     4. National Kala Azar Control Programme
     5. National Japanese Encephalitis Control Programme
     6. National Leprosy Control Programme/ National Leprosy Eradication Programme
     7. National Poliomyelitis Eradication Programme
     8. National Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Programme
     9. National AIDS Control Programme (NACO)
     10. National Acute Respiratory Infection Control Programme.
   • Related to Non-communicable Diseases
     1. National Programme for the Control of Blindness
     2. National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness
     3. National Programme for Prevention and Control of Diabetes
     4. Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke
     5. National Mental Health Programme
     6. National Cancer Control Programme.
     7. National Iodine Deficiency Control Programme
     8. National Programme for Control and Treatment of Occupational Diseases
     9. National Vitamin ‘A' Prophylaxis Programme
     10. National Nutritional Anemia Control Programme
     11. National Mid day School Meal Programme
     12. National Measles Mortality Reduction Programme
     13. Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
     14. National Tobacco Control Programme
     15. National Family Welfare Programme
     16. Reproductive and Child Health Programme (RCH)
     17. National Water Supply and Sanitation Programme
     18. Minimum Needs Programme
     19. Twenty Point Programme
     20. Universal Immunization Programme
     21. Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP)
     22. Integrated Management of Childhood and Neonatal Illness (IMNCI)
     23. RMNCH +A
     24. National Health Mission and (Sustainable) Development Goal.

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7. Environment and Health:
   1. Physical Environment
   2. Biological Environment
   3. Social Environment
   4. Cultural Environment
   5. Health Hazards of Water Contamination
   6. Purification of Water
   7. Purification of Water on Large Scale
   8. Purification of Water on Small Scale
   9. Hardness of Water
   10. Conservation of Water Resources and Laboratory Examination of Water
   11. Water Quality Standards
   12. Water Harvesting
   13. Effects of Vitiated Air
   14. Indicators of Thermal Comfort
   15. Air Pollution and Ventilation
   16. Hazards of Noise Pollution and Prevention and Control of Noise Pollution
   17. Health Hazards of Lighting
   18. Prevention and Control of Radiation Hazards
   19. Housing and Health
   20. Atmospheric Pressure
   21. Air Temperature
   22. Humidity and Air Movement
   23. Disposal of Refuse
   24. Waste
   25. Recycling of Rifuse
   26. Disposal of Sewge & Excreta and Treatment of Sewage
   27. E-waste Disposal
   28. Global Warming
   29. Environmental Manipulation in prevention and control of Arthropod borne and zoonotic diseases.

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8. Management Of Biomedical Waste:
   1. Legislative Framework.

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9. Nutrition and Health:
   1. Classification of Foods
   2. Macro and Micro Nutrients
   3. Food Groups
   4. Caloric Requirements
   5. Balanced Diet
   6. Food Hygiene
   7. Food Related Diseases
   8. Diet Survey (Nutritional Assesment)
   9. Indicators of Malnutrition
   10. Nutritional Surveillance
   11. National Nutrition Policy
   12. Food Additives
   13. Food Enrichment and Food Fortification and Food Safety Act
   14. Nutritional Health Problems of India.

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10. Occupational Health:
    1. Burden of Occupational Diseases
    2. Ergonomics
    3. Occupational Hazards
    4. Pneumoconiosis
    5. Lead Poisoning (Plumbism)
    6. Occupational Health in Agriculture Industry
    7. Hazards due to Industrialization and Urbanization
    8. Accidents in Industries
    9. Offensive Trades and Occupations
    10. Sickness Absenteeism
    11. Women in Industry
    12. Prevention and Control of Occupational Hazards
    13. Legislation and Social Security.

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11. Demography and Family Welfare:
    1. Demographic Cycle (Demographic Stages)
    2. Population Dynamics
    3. Measurement of Fertility (Fertility Indicators)
    4. Measurement of Mortality
    5. Population Explosion (Population Bomb) and Population Stabilization
    6. Need for Family Planning
    7. Scope of Family Welfare Services
    8. Contraceptive Methods (Fertility Regulating Methods
    9. Techniques of Birth Control) and Evaluation of Contraceptive Methods.

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12. Maternal and Child Health Services: (Preventive Obstetrics and Paediatrics)
    1. Preventive aspects in Materinity Cylcle
    2. Growth Monitoring
    3. Under Fives Clinic
    4. Handicapped Children
    5. Juvenile Delinquency
    6. Child Guidance Clinic
    7. School Health Services
    8. Indicators of MCH Care
    9. Rights of the Child
    10. Child Welfare Agencies
    11. Integrated Mother and Child Development Services Scheme (IMCDS)
    12. Challenges in Adolescent Health in India
    13. Adolescent Health Problems and Services in Adolescent Health Clinics.

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13. Preventive Geriatrics:
    1. Population of the Aged
    2. Theories of Aging Process
    3. Health Problems of the Aged
    4. Care of the Aged
    5. Old Age Social and Income Security
    6. Benefits given to Senior Citizens of India.

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14. Social Science:
    1. Acculturation
    2. Family Cycle
    3. Family Types
    4. Family Functions
    5. Role of Family and Cultural Factors in Health and Disease
    6. Social Process
    7. Operational Research
    8. Medico social Worker and Personal Hygiene
    9. Socio-economic status
    10. Social Problems.

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15. Biostatistics and Research:
    1. Health Information System
    2. Application of Biostatistics
    3. Presentation of Statistical Data
    4. Tabulation
    5. Diagrammatic Presentation
    6. Measures of Central Tendency
    7. Measure of Dispersion
    8. Probability
    9. Sampling
    10. Sampling Variation
    11. Null Hypothesis
    12. Test of Significance and Life Table
    13. Confidence Interval.

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16. Information, Education and Communication:
    1. Information, Education and Communication
    2. Types of Communication
    3. Barriers of Communication
    4. Steps in IEC: Planning
    5. Implementation and Evaluation and Health Education
    6. Approaches in Health Education
    7. Contents of Health Education
    8. Practice in Health Education
    9. Lecture
    10. Demonstration
    11. Delphi Method.

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17. Health Care - Three – tier System of Health Care:
    1. Role of Non-Government Organisation in Health Care.

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18. Health Planning and Management:
    1. Planning Cycle
    2. Basic Management Techniques in Public Health
    3. Bhore Committee
    4. Mudaliar Committee
    5. Kartar Singh Committee
    6. Srivastav Committee & Others Committees
    7. National Development Plans
    8. Organization of Indian Health Administration and Rural Development.

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19. National Health Policies and Acts:
    1. National Health Policy
    2. National Population Policy
    3. National Housing Policy
    4. National Nutrition Policy
    5. National Policy for Children and National Policy for Older Persons.

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20. International Health Organizations:
    1. Public Health in International Travelling
    2. Bio-Terrorism
    3. WHO
    4. UNICEF
    5. Food and Agricultural Organization
    6. International Labour Organization and Bilateral Agencies
    7. Colombo Plan
    8. United States Agency for International Development.

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21. Disaster Management: impact on Health.