Vivek jain exam preparatory manual of community medicine - download ⬇️⬇️
Understanding community medicine is difficult,but it becomes easy and enjoyable with the help of a good teacher and good book. Because of its vastness many students consider PSM as a difficult subject. Actually,it is true PSM is huge and volatile subject and it requires frequent study and revisions.
Scientists had given importance only to communicable diseases till 20th century. After that,it realized the importance of disease causation factors. For a disease to occur, mearly an causative factor is not enough. This concept leads to the rapid development of social and preventive medicine.
Cholera is called the ‘father of public health' which paved the way for epidemiological studies and concepts. Preventive medicine gained firm foundation after the discovery of causative agent and the germ theory of disease.
Occurance of new diseases with pandemics (influenza,swine flu) and increased prevelance to non communicable diseases like hypertension, diabetes etc., leads to the importance of prevention and social medicine in recent years. It's primary objective is preventing the disease and promotion of health.
This book, Exam preparatory manual of community medicine by Vivek Jain is concise with highly informative for students. This book is written in a simple language for better understanding. Exam preparatory manual by Vivek Jain is extremely useful during exams for rapid revision and reproduce.
It is also useful for post graduate medical exam preparations and other competitive exams. If you doesn't have enough time, you can use this book for passing exams. It is loaded with key points and important concepts.
Salient features of the book:
- New or updated guidelines like new RNTCP guidelines,new biomedical waste management guidelines,new rabies vaccine guidelines by WHO, new MDT guidelines,Kala star,diarrhoea and Diptheria treatment guidelines and new goal in HDI calculation,new H1N1 categorisation, new international death certificate guidelines, new AFG surveillance indicators, new BFHI guidelines,new revised John's criteria, new open vial,Pn visits, ARI and BP classification guidelines.
- New health programmes, policies and legislations like Swacch Bharath mission, Ayushman Bharat program, Anemia Mukt Bharat program, National nutrition mission and NMC bill.
- New initiatives in elimination of lymphatics filariasis, family planning, National strategic plans for malaria control in India (NVBDCP), nutritional rehabilitation center, MR camping, Intensified mission Indradhanush,new strategic plans for HIV/AIDS, Mission Parivar Vikas (mpv).
- New topics like, adjuvants in vaccine, tribal health in India, global hunger index, contraception and adolescence, multidimensional poverty index (MDPI), lifestyle modification to control hypertension,TB and newer contraceptives, Rotavirus vaccines.
- New cancer data, NHP and SDGs.
- Rural health strategies in India.
- New updated complications in public health.
- Tricky complicated short notes in recent processional examinations.
- New clinical case pictures.
Editions:
First edition of this book was published during 2015. Latest edition of the book is third edition released in 2019.
Contents of the book:
Book cover
Acknowledgments
Preface to third edition
Preface to second edition
Contents
Section 1: Annexures
1A) Kuppusamy scale for socioeconomic status ( urban families)
2B) Modified BG prasad scale for socioeconomic status ( rural/urban families)
3) Consumption unit
4) Calorific values of food items
5) key age group definitions
6) Biomedical waste management guidelines
7) Public health statistics in India
Section 2: Theory examinations
8) Historical aspects of public health
9) Concepts of health, diseases and prevention
10) Vaccines, immunisation and cold chain.
11) Concepts in screening of disease
12) Basic concepts in epidemiology
13) General Epidemiology of infectious diseases
14) Epidemiology of communicable diseases
15) Epidemiology of non communicable diseases
16) National health programmes, policies and legislations
17) Demography and population dynamics
18) Family planning and contraception
19) Preventive obstetrics and pediatrics
20) Nutrition and health
21) Environment and health
22) Social science and health
23) Health education and communications
24) Health care in India, Health planning and management.
25) Allied disciplines in public health
26) International health
27) Biostatistics
28) Other public health related topics
Section 3: Practical examinations
29) Epidemiological, Demography and statistical exercises
30) Sports exercise
31) Family presentation
32) clinical social long case and shot case presentation
33) Visits to institute/organisations of public health importance
34) Tricky shot notes in previous year examinations
Colour plates for spots exercise
Index.
About the Author:
Dr. Vivek Jain MBBS ( Maulana Azad Medical college) MD community medicine ( Lady Harding medical college,New Delhi)
Dr.Vivek jain was former senior resident in VMMC,SJH, GTBH and UCMS New Delhi. Faculty in GFIMSR, Haryana. Consult in United Nations office on drugs and crime, south asia.
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