Preventive and social medicine (PSM) is a major subject in third year MBBS. The standard textbook for community medicine during third year MBBS is Park's textbook of Preventive and social medicine.
Park's PSM book is loaded with concepts and knowledge. Most of the students prefer park's textbook for many entrance examinations.
The first edition of this book was released in July 1970. Now, the latest edition (25th edition) was released in 2019 and this edition is ‘the silver jubilee edition'.
Contents of the book
Chapters
1) Man and medicine, health fowr all
2) Concept of health and diseases
3) Principles of epidemiology and epidemiologic methods
- aims of epidemiology
- epidemiological approach
- measurement of mortality
- rates and ratios
- measurement of morbidity
- epidemiological methods
- descriptive epidemiology
- analytical epidemiology
- experimental epidemiology
- association and causation
- uses of epidemiology
- infectious diseases epidemiology
- disease transmission
- Immunity
- Immunizing agents
- disease prevention and control
- disinfection
- investigation of an epidemic
4) Screening for disease
- Concept of screening
- uses of screening
- criteria for screening
- sensitivity and specificity
- problems of the borderline
5) Epidemiology of communicable diseases
a) Respiratory infections
- smallpox
- chicken pox
- Measles
- Mumps
- Influenza
- Diptheria
- Whooping cough
- Meningococcal meningitis
- Acute respiratory infections
- SARS
- Tuberculosis
b) Intestinal infections
- Poliomyelitis
- Viral hepatitis
- Acute diarrhoeal diseases
- cholera
- typhoid fever
- food poisoning
- amoebiasis
- ascariasis
- hookworm infections
- dracunculiasis
c) Arthropod borne infections
- Dengue fever
- Malaria
- Lymphatic filariasis
- Zika Virus disease
d) Zoonoses
Viral
- Rabies
- Yellow fever
- Nipah virus infections
- Japanese encephalitis
- KFD
Rickettsia diseases
- Rickettsia Zoonoses
- scrub typhus
- murine typhus
- tick typhus
- Q fever
Bacteria
- chickunguniya fever
- brucellosis
- leptospirosis
- plague
- human salmonellosis
Parasitic zoonoses
- taeniais
- hadatid disease
- leishmaniasis
e) Surface infections
- trachoma
- tetanus
- leprosy
- STD
- yaws
- AIDS
f) Emerging and re-emerging diseases
g) Hospital acquired infections
6) Epidemiology of non communicable diseases
- cardiovascular diseases
- coronary heart diseases
- hypertension
- stroke
- rheumatic heat disease
- cancer
- diabetes
- obesity
- blindness
- accidents and injuries
7) Health programmes in India
8) Millennium development goals to sustainable development goals
9) Family planning and demography
10) preventive medicine in obstetrics, pediatrics and geriatrics
11) Nutrition and health
12) Medicine and social medicine
13) Tribal health in India
14) Environment and health
15) Hospital waste management
16) Disaster management
17) Occupational health
18) Genetics and health
19) Mental health
20) Health information and basic medical statistics
21) Communication for health education
22) Health planning and management
23) Health care of the community
24) International health
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