Prepared by:
Chaman Zulfiqar (G12)
Shahr Bano Sayal (G12)
Compiled by:
Talha Saleem (G12)
Reference Books:
- Excel Community Medicine 14th edition
Note:
- In Community Medicine, definitions are very important so memorize them word by word.
- After that, general knowledge with logical understanding is required.
- Read the topic carefully, build your concepts, and then you can write in your own words but only logical things.
Chapter 1 + 2
- Starts with basic definitions
- Programs and types (imp)
- Concepts of disease control (imp)
- Level of preventions (vv imp)
- Modes of interventions (vv imp)
- Rehabilitation and types (vv imp)
- WHO functions (vv imp)
Chapter 2
- Definitions health, disease, illness, sickness
- Spectrum of disease (imp)
- Ice berg of disease (v imp)
- Determinants of health (vv imp)
- Indicators of health (vv imp)
- PQLI (v imp)
- HDI (v imp)
- Millennium development goals (vv imp) (just names with sequence)
- Sustainable development goals (just names) (v imp)
Chapter 3
(This is vvvvvvv imp topic whole chapter needs to be done with full ratta)
- Def epidemiology components aims (imp)
- Uses just names
- Basic measures in epidemiology
- Tools of measurements (v imp)
- Measures of mortality (each and every formula) (v imp)
- Measures of morbidity (v imp)
- Frequency determinants (imp)
- Epidemiology bathtab (v imp)
- Epidemiological methods (v imp) (complete)
- blinding to end of chapter (everything of this chap is vvvv imp)
Chapter 10
- Primary Health Care definition as it is (vvv imp viva)
- Components of PHC
- Health care for all by year 2000
- Definition (WHO), learn as it is word to word
- Global target for HFA by 2000
- Health planning cycle
- 7-star Doctor
- Levels of health care complete topic (vvv imp seq+viva)
- BHU (read for mcqs)
- RHC (read for mcqs)
- Duties of LHV + catchment area (vvv imp viva)
- Duties of LHW + catchment area
- Diff between BHU and RHC
Chapter 11:
- Water, uses of water (read)
- Classification of water (imp)
- Types of wells, types of springs, sanitary well (read)
- Water pollution (read)
- Hazards of water pollution (imp)
- Criteria for quality of water (vvv imp)
- WHO standard for safe water supply (vvv imp)
- Hardness of water (read)
- Purification of water (vvv imp)
- Definitions (learn word to word as it is)
- Tests for free chlorine(just read)
- Purification of water on small scale (vvv imp)
- Sampling of water (imp)
- Water related diseases (extremely high yield topic). Do it complete
- Causes of air pollution (imp)
- Effects of polluted air (vvv imp)
- Green house effect and global warming (imp seq+mcqs)
- Purification of air (complete topic vvv imp)
- Acceptable noise levels (table) imp viva
- Effects of noise exposure
- Effects of heat stress (extremely imp), must do scenarios of this topic from past papers
- Effects of cold stress
- Solid waste disposal (imp)
- Methods of excreta disposal (just do headings, and read details of each once)
- Definitions at last page (learn word to word)
Chapter 18
This chapter contains general information so read it thoroughly and make concise key points.
- communication def and components
- Shannon weaver communication model (v imp)
- Types of communications (v imp)
- Methods (imp)
- Barrier of communications (seq)
- Functions of communication (names and just read)
- Health education def, aims, stages (imp)
- Contents of communications (imp)
- Methods of maintaining behavior (imp)
- Models (vvvv imp)
- Principles of health education (names) (imp)
- Program plan and evaluation of program (v imp)