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