Social and Preventive Medicine Review Notes
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INTRODUCTION 9
GENERAL FEATURES OF SOCIAL AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 9
TYPES OF MEDICINE 9
MEDICAL BOOKS 10
MEDICAL DISCOVERIES 10
NOBEL PRIZE 11
CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE 11
GENERAL FEATURES OF HEALTH AND DISEASE 11
NATURAL HISTORY OF DISEASE 11
INCUBATION PERIOD 12
SECONDARY ATTACK RATE 13
ICEBERG PHENOMENON 13
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX 13
PHYSICAL QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 14
MODIFIED KUPPUSWAMI SCALE 14
MORTALITY INDICATORS 14
CASE FATALITY RATE 14
MORBIDITY INDICATORS 15
STANDARDISATION 15
QUARANTINE 16
ISOLATION 16
SURVEILLANCE 16
DISEASE CONTROL 17
DISEASE ELIMINATION 17
DISEASE ERADICATION 17
PRIMORDIAL PREVENTION 18
PRIMARY PREVENTION 18
SECONDARY PREVENTION 18
TERTIARY PREVENTION 19
INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES 19
DEATH CERTIFICATE 19
TRENDS OF DISEASE 19
EPIDEMIC 20
ENDEMIC 20
PANDEMIC 21
SPORADIC 21
ZOONOSES AND ANTHROPOZOONOSES 21
HOST 21
RESERVOIR 22
CASE 22
CARRIER 22
TRANSMISSION OF DISEASES 22
PERIOD OF COMMUNICABILITY 23
HERD IMMUNITY 23
MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS 24
EPIDEMIOLOGY 24
GENERAL FEATURES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 24
RATE AND RATIO 27
INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE 27
SURVIVAL 28
CASE CONTROL STUDY 28
ODD’S RATIO 29
COHORT STUDY 29
RELATIVE RISK AND ATTRIBUTABLE RISK 29
ECOLOGICAL STUDY 30
CAUSATION AND ASSOCIATION 30
RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIAL 31
BIAS 32
BLINDING 32
NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES 33
GENERAL FEATURES OF NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE 33
HEART DISEASE 33
DIABETES 34
HYPERTENSION 34
CANCER 34
ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT 34
SCREENING 34
GENERAL FEATURES OF SCREENING 34
SENSITIVITY 36
SPECIFICITY 37
POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE 37
NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE 37
COMBINED SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY 37
PREVENTIVE OBSTETRICS AND PEDIATRICS 38
PREVENTIVE OBSTETRICS 38
MATERNAL MORTALITY 38
PREVENTIVE PEDIATRICS 39
PERINATAL MORTALITY 39
NEONATAL MORTALITY 40
POST NEONATAL MORTALITY 40
INFANT MORTALITY 40
Infant Mortality Rate 40
UNDER 5 MORTALITY 41
ICDS 41
FAMILY PLANNING AND CONTRACEPTION 41
GENERAL FEATURES OF FAMILY PLANNING AND CONTRACEPTION 41
NATURAL CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS 43
BARRIER METHODS 43
FEATURES OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS 43
COMPOSITION OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS 45
BENEFITS OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS 45
CONTRAINDICATIONS OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS 45
SIDE EFFECTS OF OCP 46
MINI PILLS 46
EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION 46
TYPES OF IUCD 47
FEATURES OF IUCD 48
LIFE SPAN OF IUCD 49
COMPLICATIONS OF IUCD 49
CONTRAINDICATIONS OF IUCD 49
SUBDERMAL IMPLANTS 49
VASECTOMY 50
TUBECTOMY 50
DEMOGRAPHY 51
GENERAL FEATURES OF DEMOGRAPHY 51
DEMOGRAPHIC CYCLE 52
BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND GROWTH RATE 52
Crude birth rate 52
GRR/NRR is 53
POPULATION GROWTH 53
SEX RATIO 53
LITERACY RATIO 53
DEPENDENCY RATIO 54
SAMPLE REGISTRATION SYSTEM 54
NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY 54
CENSUS 54
GENERAL FERTILITY RATE 54
TOTAL FERTILITY RATE 55
NET REPRODUCTION RATE 55
BIOMEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT 55
TRIAGE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT 56
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES 57
FACTORIES ACT 58
ESI ACT 58
POPULATION GENETICS 59
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH 60
GENERAL FEATURES OF ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH 60
HARDNESS OF WATER 60
CONTAMINATION OF WATER 60
PURIFICATION OF WATER 61
CHLORINATION OF WATER 62
AIR POLLUTION, TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY 63
NOISE 64
FLOOR SPACE 64
SCHOOL STANDARDS 64
SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND SEPTIC TANK 64
VECTORS 65
VECTOR CONTROL 67
HEALTH CARE IN INDIA 68
GENERAL FEATURES OF HEALTH CARE IN INDIA 68
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 69
HEALTH WORKERS 70
PLANNING COMMITTEE 70
POPULATION NORMS 71
PLANNING CYCLE 71
NETWORK ANALYSIS 72
COMMUNICATION AND HEALTH EDUCATION 73
COMMUNICATION 73
HEALTH EDUCATION 74
FAMILY, SOCIAL AND MENTAL SCIENCES 74
FAMILY 74
SOCIAL SCIENCES 75
MENTAL SCIENCES 76
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH 76
NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMMES 77
GENERAL FEATURES OF NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMMES 77
TUBERCULOSIS 78
LEPROSY 79
AIDS 80
MALARIA 80
FILARIASIS 81
BLINDNESS 81
DEAFNESS 82
GOITRE 82
ANEMIA 82
POLIO 82
NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH MISSION 82
NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY 83
NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY 83
RCH AND IMNCI 84
MID DAY MEAL PROGRAMME 84
TRANSPLANTATION OF ORGANS ACT 85
BIOSTATISTICS 85
DATA AND SCALE 85
CENTRE OF DISPERSION 86
CENTILE AND QUARTILE 87
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY 87
DISTRIBUTION 88
SAMPLING 89
PROBABILITY 90
ERROR 91
PAIRED T TEST 91
UNPAIRED T TEST 91
STUDENT T TEST 92
CHI SQUARE TEST 92
ANOVA TEST 93
REGRESSION 93
CORRELATION 93
DEGREE OF FREEDOM 94