CONTENTS :

INTRODUCTION

General features of social and preventive medicine

Types of medicine

Medical books

Medical discoveries

Nobel price

CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE

General features of health and disease

Natural history of disease

Incubation period

Secondary attack rate

Iceberg phenomenon

Human development index

Physical quality of life index

Modified kuppuswami scale

Mortality indicators

Case fatality rate

Morbidity indicators

Standardisation

Quarantine

Isolation

Surveillance

Disease control

Disease elimination

Disease eradication

Primordial prevention

Primary prevention

Secondary prevention

Tertiary prevention

International classification of diseases

Death certificate

Trends of disease

Epidemic

Endemic

Pandemic

Sporadic

Zoonoses and anthropozoonoses

Host

Reservoir

Case

Carrier

Transmission of diseases

Period of communicability

Herd immunity

Millenium development goals

EPIDEMIOLOGY

General features of epidemiology

Rate and ratio

Incidence and prevalence

Survival

Case control study

Odd’s ratio

Cohort study

Relative risk and attributable risk

Ecological study

Causation and association

Randomised control trial

Bias

Blinding

NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

General features of non communicable disease

Heart disease

Diabetes

Hypertension

Cancer

Road traffic accident

SCREENING

General features of screening

Sensitivity

Specificity

Positive predictive value

Negative predictive value

Combined sensitivity and specificity

PREVENTIVE OBSTETRICS AND PEDIATRICS

Preventive obstetrics

Maternal mortality

Preventive pediatrics

Perinatal mortality

Neonatal mortality

Post neonatal mortality

Infant mortality

Infant mortality rate

Under mortality

ICDS

FAMILY PLANNING AND CONTRACEPTION

General features of family planning and contraception

Natural contraceptive methods

Barrier methods

Features of oral contraceptive pills

Composition of oral contraceptive pills

Benefits of oral contraceptive pills

Contraindications of oral contraceptive pills

Side effects of OCP

Mini pills

Emergency contraception

Types of IUCD

Features of IUCD

Life span of IUCD

Complications of IUCD

Contraindications of IUCD

Subdermal implants

Vasectomy

Tubectomy

DEMOGRAPHY

General features of demography

Demographic cycle

Birth rate, death rate and growth rate

Crude birth rate

GRR/NRR

Population growth

Sex ratio

Literacy ratio

Dependency ratio

Sample registration system

National family health survey

Census

General fertility rate

Total fertility rate

Net reproduction rate

BIOMEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

TRIAGE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

FACTORIES ACT

ESI ACT

POPULATION GENETICS

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

General features of environment and health

Hardness of water

Contamination of water

Purification of water

Chlorination of water

Air pollution, temperature and humidity

Noise

Floor space

School standards

Sewage disposal and septic tank

Vectors

Vector control

HEALTH CARE IN INDIA

General features of health care in India

Primary health care

Health workers

Planning committee

Population norms

Planning cycle

Network analysis

COMMUNICATION AND HEALTH EDUCATION

Communication

Health education

FAMILY, SOCIAL AND MENTAL SCIENCES

Family

Social sciences

Mental sciences

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMMES

General features of national health programmes

Tuberculosis

Leprosy

AIDS

Malaria

Filariasis

Blindness

Deafness

Goitre

Anemia

Polio

National rural health mission

National health policy

National population policy

RCH and IMNCI

Mid day meal programme

Transplantation of organs act

BIOSTATISTICS

Data and scale

Centre of dispersion

Centile and quartile

Measures of variability

Distribution

Sampling

Probability

Error

Paired T test

Unpaired T test

Student T test

Chi square test

ANOVA test

Regression

Correlation

Degree of freedom