Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha Vishwavidyalaya 2009 B.H.M.S Fourth COMMUNITY MEDICINE (including Health Education and Family Medicine) THEORY Code:

PART-A
1. Introduction to preventive and social medicine concept. Man and society: aim
and scope of preventive and social medicine, social causes of disease and
social issues or the sick, relation of economic factors and environment in
health and disease.
2. Physiological hygiene:
a. Food and nutrition: food in relation to health and disease. Balanced
diets. Nutritional deficiencies and nutritional survey. Food processing,
pasteurization of milk. Adulteration of food and food inspection, Food
poisoning.
b. Air, light and sunshine.
c. Effect of climate: humidity, temperature, pressure and other
meteorological conditions; comfort zone, effect of overcrowding.
d. Personal hygiene: (Cleanliness, rest, sleep, work). Physical exercise
and training. Care of health in tropics.
3. Environmental sanitation:
a. Definition and importance.
b. Atmospheric pollution: purification or air, air sterilization, air borne
diseases.
c. Water supplies: sources and uses, impurities and purification. Public
water supplies in urban and rural areas. Standards of drinking water,
water borne diseases.
d. Conservancy: Methods in villages, towns and cities, septic tanks, dry
earth latrines-water closets, Disposal of sewage, disposal of the
deceased, disposal of refuge incineration.
e. Sanitation of fairs and festivals.
f. Disinfection: disinfectants, deodorants, antiseptics, germicides.
Methods of disinfection and sterilization.
g. Insects: insecticides and disinfection-insects in relation to disease.
Insect control.
h. Protozoal and helminthic diseases Life cycle of protozoan and
helminths, their prevention.
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PART-B
1. Medical Statistics:
Principles and elements of vital statistics.
Preventive Medicine:
a. General principles of prevention and control of communicable diseases:
Plague, Cholera, Small Pox Diphtheria, Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Malaria,
Kala-Azar, Filariasis, Common viral diseases, e.g. Common Cold
Measles, Chicken Pox, Poliomyelitis, Infective Hepatitis, Helminthic
infections, Enteric fever, dysenteries and also animal diseases
transmissible to man. Their description and methods of preventive
spread by contact, by droplet infection by environmental vehicles,
(water, soil food insects, animals, founderies), prophylaxis and
vaccination.
b. General principles of prevention and control of non-communicable
diseases e.g. obesity, hypertension etc.
Natural history of diseases.
2. Maternal and Child Health, school health services, health education, mental
hygiene-elementary principles; school medicine its aim and methods.
3. Family Planning - Demography, channels of communication, National family
planning programme, knowledge, attitudes regarding contraceptive practices.
Population and growth control.
4. Public health administration and international health relation.
5. Homoeopathic concept of prophylaxis, vaccination, immunology and personal
hygiene.
Books Recommended:
1. Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine by K. Park.
2. Short Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine by G. N. Prabhakara.
3. Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine by M. C. Gupta, B. K. Mahajan.
4. Hand Book of Social and Preventive Medicine by Yash Pal Bedi.

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