Community Medicine with Recent Advances (5th Edition)

Description

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition encompasses recent advances in the field of community medicine to help students learn how to not only prevent disease, but also promote health. The text is presented in a bulleted format for easy reading. The text is supported by easy-to-reproduce flowcharts, tables, life cycles of parasites, treatment algorithms, well-drawn figures, concept maps, graphs. The distribution of diseases is depicted through the use of maps.

Key Features

• The epidemiology of stress
• The epidemiology of Leptospirosis
• The epidemiology of Asian Lineage Avian Influenza H7N9 virus.
• Health strategies for malaria elimination.
• Oral health programmes.
• Floods and health.
• Nipah virus disease.
• Daily allowances of nutrients.
• Global vaccination action plans.
• Operational guidelines on the introduction of measles Rubella vaccine.
• Global health strategies on viral hepatitis.
• Immunisation schedules: zoonoses, Zika vaccine, Mycobacterium indicus pranii vaccine, and post-exposure Prophylaxis for leprosy.

Table of Contents

1. Prelims
2. Annexure 919-924
3. Index 925-954
4. Chapter-01 Introduction to Community Medicine 1-5
5. Chapter-02 Concept of Health 6-10
6. Chapter-03 Concept of Disease 11-14
7. Chapter-04 Concept of Prevention 15-18
8. Chapter-05 Environment and Water 19-40
9. Chapter-06 Air and Ventilation 41-45
10. Chapter-07 Noise 46-47
11. Chapter-08 Light 48-49
12. Chapter-09 Radiation 50-54
13. Chapter-10 Housing 55-57
14. Chapter-11 Meteorology 58-64
15. Chapter-12 Disposal of Wastes 65-79
16. Chapter-13 Management of Hospital Waste 80-92
17. Chapter-14 Electronic Waste Management 93-96
18. Chapter-15 Medical Entomology 97-130
19. Chapter-16 Nutrition and Health 131-184
20. Chapter-17 Occupational Health 185-212
21. Chapter-18 Principles and Practice of Epidemiology 213-234
22. Chapter-19 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases 235-276
23. Chapter-20 Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases 277-467
24. Chapter-21 Epidemiology of Noncommunicable Diseases 468-500
25. Chapter-22 Maternal and Child Health Services (Preventive Obstetrics and Pediatrics) 501-551
26. Chapter-23 Demography 552-564
27. Chapter-24 Family Planning 565-586
28. Chapter-25 Biostatistics 587-628
29. Chapter-26 Social Science 629-645
30. Chapter-27 Information, Education and Communication 646-655
31. Chapter-28 Human Genetics 656-660
32. Chapter-29 Preventive Geriatrics 661-665
33. Chapter-30 Mental Health 666-668
34. Chapter-31 Adolescent Health 669-673
35. Chapter-32 Alcoholism and Drug Addiction 674-678
36. Chapter-33 Health for All 679-682
37. Chapter-34 Millennium Development Goals 683-695
38. Chapter-35 Sustainable Development Goals 696-698
39. Chapter-36 Health Care 699-710
40. Chapter-37 National Health Mission 711-734
41. Chapter-38 Health Planning and Management 735-738
42. Chapter-39 National Health Planning 739-746
43. Chapter-40 National Health Policy 747-755
44. Chapter-41 National Voluntary Health Agencies/Organizations 756-758
45. Chapter-42 International Health Organizations 759-765
46. Chapter-43 Bilateral Agencies 766-769
47. Chapter-44 National Health Programmes 770-866
48. Chapter-45 Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases 867-876
49. Chapter-46 Disaster Management 877-882
50. Chapter-47 Integrated Disease Surveillance Project: 2004–2009 883-885
51. Chapter-48 Bioterrorism 886-888
52. Chapter-49 Global Warming 889-891
53. Chapter-50 Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness 892-893
54. Chapter-51 Integrated Management of Childhood Illness 894-904
55. Chapter-52 Telemedicine in Public Health 905-909
56. Chapter-53 Tobacco and Health 910-913
57. Chapter-54 Internet and Health 914-915
58. Chapter-55 Public Health Acts 916-918