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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
Ratings and reviews
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