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Important topics/questions in Community Medicine

Man and medicine

1. Indian Medicine

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2. Sanitary awakening
3. Social medicine
4. Deprofessionalization of medicine
5. John Snow role in public health
6. Louis Pasteur

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7. Edward Jenner
8. Germ theory of disease

Concept of health and disease

1. Health definition
2. Physical Quality of Life Index

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3. Human Development Index
4. Determinants of Health
5. Self-care
6. Indicators in health
7. Disability Adjusted Life Years

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8. Health team concept
9. Epidemiological triad
10. Advanced triangle of epidemiology
11. Natural History of disease
12. Risk factors

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13. Iceberg phenomenon
14. Surveillance
15. Levels of prevention and modes of intervent
16. Web of causation
17. Multifactorial causation

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18. Dimensions of health
19. International Classification of Diseases
20. Community Diagnosis

Epidemiology

1. Definition of epidemiology

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2. Epidemiological approach
3. Rate, ratio, proportion
4. International death certificate
5. Mortality rates
6. Standardization: direct, indirect

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7. Incidence, prevalence
8. Classification of epidemiological studies
9. Descriptive epidemiology steps
10. Epidemics
11. Migration studies

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12. Cross sectional study
13. Case control study steps
14. Odds ratio
15. Bias: types
16. Confounders

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17. Advantages and disadvantages of case control study
18. Cohort study framework and steps
19. Matching
20. Relative risk, attributable risk, population attributable risk
21. Advantages, disadvantages of cohort studies

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22. Differences between case control and cohort studies
23. Randomized Controlled Trial steps
24. Randomization
25. Blinding
26. Non-randomized trials

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27. Types of association
28. Bradford Hill/ Additional criteria for judging causalty
29. Uses of epidemiology
30. Infection definition
31. Epidemic, sporadic, endemic, pandemic definition

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32. Opportunistic infection, physician induced disease
33. Dead end infection
34. Meaning of source, reservoir
35. Subclinical cases, latent infection
36. Carriers and types

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37. Modes of transmission
38. Vector
39. Droplet infection
40. Incubation period
41. Latent period

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42. Serial Interval
43. Generation time
44. Communicable period
45. Secondary attack rate
46. Herd immunity

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47. Live, killed vaccines
48. National Immunization Schedule
49. Cold chain
50. Vaccine Vial Monitor
51. Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI)

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52. Investigation of AEFI
53. Steps for disease prevention and control
54. Isolation
55. Quarantine
56. Emporiatrics/health advice to travellers

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57. Disinfection meaning, sterilization
58. Types of disinfection
59. Disinfection of urine, sputum
60. Steps in investigation of an epidemic

Screening

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1. Define screening
2. Difference between screening and diagnostic test
3. Lead time
4. Uses of screening
5. Criteria for screening test

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6. Validity of screening test (sensitivity, specificity, predictive value)
7. High-risk screening

Communicable diseases

Epidemiology, prevention and control very important. Focus more on that

1. Measles: epidemiology, prevention, control

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2. Measles vaccine
3. Clinical features, complications of measles
4. Epidemiology, clinical features, prevention and control of chicken pox
5. Epidemiology of mumps
6. Congenital Rubella Syndrome

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7. Antigenic shift and antigenic drift in influenza
8. HINI
9. Influenza: prevention and control, vaccine
10. DPT
11. Diphtheria: prevention and control

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12. Schick Test
13. Meningocoocal meningitis prevention and control
14. ARI : control, classification
15. SARS epidemiology, prevention and control
16. Epidemiological indices in TB

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17. Collection of sputum samples in TB
18. DOTS
19. Definitions: new case, relapse, failure, defaulter, cured, treatment completed
20. BCG
21. MDR-TB: definition, treatment

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22. TB and HIV
23. Strategies for polio eradication in India
24. Pulse Polio Immunization
25. National Immunization Days for polio vaccination
26. Oral Polio Vaccine vs Inactivated Polio Vaccine

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27. AFP surveillance
28. Hepatitis B laboratory diagnosis-humoral and cellular responses
29. Hepatitis B vaccine
30. Prevention and control: hepatitis A, hepatitis B
31. Control of diarrhea

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32. ORS
33. Super ORS (Viva question)
34. Treatment plans for dehydration (Plan A, B, C: New Park Page 605/OP Ghai Paediatrics)
35. Laboratory diagnosis and control of cholera
36. Control of typhoid

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37. Types of food poisoning
38. Steps to investigate food poisoning
39. Prevention and control of amoebiasis, hookworm
40. Epidemiological features of dengue
41. Dengue shock syndrome

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42. Clinical management and control of dengue
43. Prevalent epidemiological types of malaria in India
44. Life cycle of malaria parasite
45. Vectors of malaria
46. Malarial indices/measurement of malaria

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47. Complications of malaria
48. Revised Drug Policy for malaria, 2013
49. Integrated Vector Control measures
50. Filarial survey
51. Control of filariasis

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52. Filarial survey
53. Mass drug administration in filariasis
54. Prophylaxis for rabies prevention
55. Rabies vaccine: Cell Culture Vaccine
56. Guidelines for management of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome

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57. Kyasanur Forest Disease
58. Chikungunya: control measures
59. Names of ricketssial diseases
60. Yellow fever vaccine
61. Epidemiology and control of leptospirosis

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62. Types and clinical features of plague
63. Blocked flea
64. Flea indices
65. Prevention and control of plague
66. Epidemiology and prevention of tetanus

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67. DPT vaccine
68. Bacterial index and morphological index in leprosy
69. Lepromin test
70. SET centre
71. Leprosy control measures

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72. Chemotherapy in leprosy
73. Lepra reactions: features and treatment
74. Rehabilitation in leprosy
75. Syndromic approach to STDs
76. Epidemiological features of AIDS

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77. WHO case definition for AIDS
78. Lab diagnosis of HIV/AIDS
79. Control of AIDS
80. WHO recommended Anti-retroviral therapy schedule, 2013
81. Post-exposure prophylaxis in HIV

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82. Universal safety precautions
83. Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission in HIV
84. Sentinel Surveillance in HIV
85. Short note on emerging diseases with examples
86. Re-emerging diseases with examples

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87. Antimicrobial resistance: examples and control
88. Hospital acquired infections: types, sources, mode of spread, prevention

Non-Communicable Diseases

1. Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors of Cardiovascular disease
2. Prevention of Cardiovascular disease

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3. Framingham heart study
4. Rule of halves in hypertension
5. Risk factors for hypertension
6. Prevention of hypertension
7. DASH diet

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8. Stroke risk factors
9. Stroke in young
10. Rheumatic Heart disease: epidemiology and prevention
11. Cancer registration
12. Warning signs of cancer

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13. Screening for cancer cervix, breast cancer
14. Risk factors for oral cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer and prevention
15. Syndrome X/ Insulin Resistance Syndrome/metabolic syndrome
16. Risk factors for diabetes
17. Screening for diabetes

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18. Self-care in diabetes
19. Preventive measures for diabetes
20. Epidemiology of obesity
21. Body Mass Index/assessment of obesity
22. Prevention and control of obesity

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23. Prevention of blindness
24. Epidemiology of Road Traffic Accidents/risk factors
25. Prevention of Road Traffic Accidents
26. Domestic accidents: causes

Health Programmes

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1. NVBDCP: strategies for malaria
2. Urban malaria scheme
3. Fever treatment depots, drug distribution centres
4. National Leprosy Eradication Programme: initiatives
5. Disability Prevention and Medical Rehabilitation in leprosy

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6. RNTCP: objectives, components, organization, laboratory network newer initiatives
7. DOTS plus for MDR-TB
8. National AIDS Control Programme major strategies
9. Integrated Counseling and Testing Centres (ICTC)
10. Care, support and treatment in HIV

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11. Vision 2020: Right to Sight
12. Salient features of National Programme for Control of Blindness
13. National Immunization Schedule
14. Pentavalent Vaccine
15. Mission Indhradhanush

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16. National Urban Health Mission: salient features
17. Roles and responsibilities of ASHA
18. First Referral Unit
19. Janani Suraksha Yojna
20. Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram

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21. Navjat Shishu Suraksha Karyakram
22. Integrated Management of Childhood and Neonatal Illness
23. Important strategies of RMNCH+A
24. Adolescent Health Programme
25. Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram

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26. Interventions under Indian Newborn Action Plan
27. NPCDCS: activities at various levels
28. National Mental Health Programme: objectives, services
29. Integrated Disease Surveillance Project: meaning, components, classification of surveillance and syndromes under surveillance

Demography and Family Planning

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1. Demography cycle stages
2. Age pyramid
3. Sex ratio
4. Dependency ratio
5. Factors influencing fertility

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6. Fertility related statistics/indicators
7. Net Reproduction Rate
8. Definition of family planning
9. Effects/health aspects of family planning
10. Eligible couple

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11. Target couple
12. Couple Protection Rate
13. Classification of contraceptive methods
14. Condom: advantages, disadvantages
15. IUD: types, mechanism of action, advantages, adverse effects, ideal IUD candidate, timing of insertion, contraindications

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16. Oral pills: mechanism of action, effectiveness, adverse effects, contraindications
17. Post-coital contraception/emergency contraception
18. Post-conceptional methods
19. Medical Termination of Pregnancy
20. Safe period/rhythm method/calendar method

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21. Natural family planning methods
22. Guidelines for sterilization
23. Post-operative advice after vasectomy
24. No-scalpel vasectomy
25. Minilaparotomy

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26. Pearl index

Preventive medicine in obstetrics, paediatrics and geriatrics

1. Social paediatrics
2. Social obstetrics
3. Risk approach (both for mothers and infants)

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4. Mother craft clinic
5. Rooming in
6. Kangaroo Mother care
7. Immediate newborn care
8. Neonatal screening

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9. Low birth weight: causes, types, importance, prevention
10. Advantages of breast feeding
11. Exclusive breast feeding
12. Breast feeding on demand
13. Weaning

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14. Colostrum
15. Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
16. Uses of growth chart
17. Health problems of pre-school child, child health problems, health problems of school-going child
18. Maternal Mortality Ratio: definition

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19. Incidence, causes of maternal mortality, preventive and social measures
20. Perinatal Mortality Rate: definition, significance, causes, intervention
21. Neonatal Mortality Rate: definition, causes, preventive measures
22. Infant Mortality Rate: definition, causes, preventive measures
23. Under-five mortality rate: definition, causes, prevention

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24. Congenital Malformation: definition, causes, prevention
25. School Health Service: objectives and aspects
26. Handicapped children: definition, causes, prevention
27. Juvenile Delinquency: definition, causes, preventive measures
28. Problems of street children

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29. Child Guidance Clinic
30. ICDS: population norms, objectives, beneficiaries, services delivered
31. Health problems of adolescents
32. Health programmes for adolescents
33. Geriatrics definition

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34. Health problems of the aged
35. Health status of aged in India
36. Helpage India

Nutrition and Health

1. Dietary fibre

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2. Vitamin A deficiency manifestations, management and prevention
3. Net Protein Utilization
4. Reference Protein
5. Milling of rice: procedure and effects
6. Reference Indian man and woman

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7. Dietary antioxidants
8. Glycaemic Index
9. Balanced Diet
10. Prudent diet goals
11. Nutritional Problems in Public Health: long question

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12. Protein energy malnutrition: causes, features, detection, classifications, preventive measures
13. Nutritional anaemia: causes, cut-off,problem statement, effects, intervention
14. Iodine Deficiency Disorder: Magnitude, manifestations and control
15. Fluorosis: problem statement, effects, intervention
16. Lathyrism: kesari dhal, toxin, clinical features, intervention

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17. Nutritional factors in cardiovascular diseases
18. Diet in cancer: role
19. Methods to assess nutritional status
20. Food hygiene
21. Nutritional surveillance

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22. Milkborne diseases
23. Methods of pasteurization of milk
24. Food borne toxicants: aflatoxins, ergot, epidemic dropsy, endemic ascites
25. Food additives
26. Food fortification and enrichment

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27. Food standards
28. Adulteration: definition, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act
29. Enlist the community nutrition programmes
30. Mid-day meal programme

Medicine and Social Sciences

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1. Meaning of society
2. Social problems
3. Social pathology
4. Acculturation
5. Meaning of customs, culture

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6. Social control mechanisms
7. Family: definition, cycle, types, functions
8. Role of family in health and disease
9. Broken family, problem family
10. Cultural factors in health and disease

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11. Socio-economic status classification
12. Definition of Below Poverty Line
13. Doctor-patient relationship
14. Role of Medical Social Worker
15. Consumer Protection Act

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16. Technique of conducting an interview
17. Operations research
18. Global Hunger Index
19. Hidden hunger: meaning, consequence
20. Strategies to reduce poverty-reproductive health

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21. Problems of urban slum dwellers
22. Social security: meaning, types

Environment and Health

1. Definition of safe water and criteria
2. Points to be considered while constructing a sanitary well

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3. Water-related disease: classification
4. Slow-sand and rapid-sand filters
5. Difference between slow and rapid-sand filters
6. Principle of chlorination
7. Breakpoint Chlorination

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8. Methods of chlorination
9. Superchlorination
10. Stabilized bleech
11. Orthotoluidine Test, Orthotoluidine Arsenite Test
12. Methods to purify water in a small scale

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13. Steps in disinfection of a well
14. Enlist the guidelines for drinking water quality
15. Surveillance of drinking water
16. Presumptive Coliform Test
17. Hardness of water: causes, classification, disadvantages, treatment

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18. Defluoridation of water-Nalgonda Technique
19. Swimming Pool Sanitation
20. Horrock's Apparatus
21. Method to collect water samples for bacteriological examination
22. Methods to conserve water

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23. Indices of Thermal Comfort, Comfort zones
24. Enlist the air pollutants
25. Indoor air pollution
26. Effects, prevention and control of air pollution
27. Noise: meaning, effects, control

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28. Biological effects of radiation, protection measures
29. Heat stress index, effects of heat stress
30. Use of globe thermometer, kata thermometer
31. Global warming effects
32. Ozone depletion

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33. Green-house effect
34. Housing standards
35. Overcrowding: meaning, criteria, effects
36. Methods to dispose solid wastes
37. Composting method

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38. Sanitation barrier
39. Water seal latrine
40. RCA Latrine
41. Septic Tank
42. Aqua Privy

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43. Sewage: meaning, health effects
44. Modern sewage treatment plant: stages
45. Activated sludge process
46. Oxidation pond
47. Social aspects in excreta disposal

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48. Vectors: meaning, classification
49. Arthropod-borne disease: meaning, examples
50. Aedes aegypti index
51. Integrated vector control method
52. Sand flies

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53. Rat flea
54. Cyclop
55. Itch Mite
56. Classification of insecticides, resistance and toxicity
57. Rodenticide classification and commonly used

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58. Zoonoses: meaning, classification and control
59. Bio-medical waste management guidelines (categories) and treatment options
60. Incineration: use, types

Disaster Management

1. Disaster cycle

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2. Definition of disaster
3. Triage in disaster management
4. Surveillance and disease control post-disaster
5. Disaster mitigation
6. Disaster preparedness

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7. Personal protection measures in case of floods
8. Man-made disasters

Occupational Health

1. Ergonomics
2. Classification of occupational diseases

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3. Pneumoconiosis
4. Occupational cancers
5. Lead poisoning
6. Occupational hazards of agricultural workers
7. Occupational dermatitis

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8. Accidents in industry
9. Sickness absenteeism
10. Health problems due to industrialization
11. Prevention of occupational disease: medical, engineering and legislation measures
12. Factories Act 1948 description

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13. ESI Act 1948: scope, administration, finance and benefits

Genetics and Health

1. Downs syndrome
2. Turners syndrome
3. Klinefelters syndrome

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4. Sickle Cell anaemia features
5. Multifactorial disorders
6. Advances in DNA technology
7. Gene therapy
8. Hardy-Weinberg Law/population genetics

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9. Eugenics, euthenics
10. Preventive and social measures for genetic disorders

Mental Health

1. Warning signs of poor mental health
2. Drug dependence

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3. Drug addiction : symptoms and prevention
4. Effects of alcoholism and control measures

Health information and basic medical statistics

1. Mention sources of health information
2. Census: definition, types, uses

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3. Sources of vital statistics
4. Sample registration system
5. Survey methods in health : types and uses
6. Presentation of data: types of charts and diagrams
7. Measures of central tendency: mean, median mode

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8. Measures of dispersion: range, mean deviation, standard deviation
9. Normal Distribution Curve
10. Null Hypothesis
11. Type 1 and Type 2 error
12. Sampling methods

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13. Simple random sampling
14. Tests of significance
15. Chi-square test

Health education and communication

1. Qualities of a good message

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2. Didactic and Socratic methods of communication
3. Barriers of communication
4. Definition of health education: Alma Ata declaration
5. Differences between health education and propoganda
6. Approach to health education

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7. Models in health education
8. Principles of health education
9. Various methods in health education
10. Group discussion: advantages and disadvantages
11. Panel discussion

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12. Symposium
13. Role play
14. Group discussion: advantages, disadvanatges
15. Mass approach in health education

Health Planning and Management

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1. Definition of health planning
2. Meaning of objectives, targets, goals
3. Planning cycle steps
4. Cost benefit analysis
5. Cost effective analysis

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6. Network analysis: PERT, CPM
7. National Health Policy 2002
8. Bhore Committee recommendations
9. Shrivasthav Committee
10. Niti Aayog

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11. Twelfth five year plan
12. Directorate general of health services
13. Health system in India: at central, state and district levels
14. Panchayati Raj Institutions
15. Steps in evaluation of health services

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Health care of the community

1. Primary health care definition
2. Elements and principles of primary health care
3. Appropriate technology with examples
4. Community participation with examples

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5. Health for All definition
6. Health related Millennium Development Goals
7. Enlist common health problems in India
8. Health manpower in India
9. Anganawadi worker

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10. IPHS standards for sub-centres
11. IPHS standards for primary health centres
12. Functions of Female health worker
13. Functions of male health worker
14. Functions of female health assistant

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15. Functions of Medical officer PHC
16. Voluntary Health Agencies: definition, functions and voluntary health agencies in India (names and one function)
17. TB Association of India
18. Indian Red Cross Society

International Health

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1. WHO: objectives, work, structure
2. UNICEF: services
3. GOBI expansion
4. International Labour Organization
5. Food Agricultural Organization

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6. Rockfeller Foundation
7. Ford Foundation
8. CARE
9. World health day
10. International health regulations

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