Syllabus - MBBS
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Community Medicine 67<br />
• Clean external environment<br />
• Dental hygiene<br />
• Any other topic<br />
3. ENVIRONMENT<br />
Objectives<br />
At the end of the course the student should be able to:<br />
1. Describe the physical environment inside the home, at the workplace and in the community, and its<br />
impact on health and disease.<br />
2. Describe the family environment.<br />
3. Suggest appropriate methods for improving the internal/external environment.<br />
4. Define safe water. Describe the sources of water (tap, hand pump, well).<br />
5. State the criteria (national and WHO) for safe water.<br />
6. Describe appropriate methods for making water safe at the domiciliary level.<br />
7. Describe sources of waste and methods of waste control at individual and community levels.<br />
8. Define air pollution, causes of air pollution and describe appropriate measures of control.<br />
9. Describe the effects of noise and radiation on health.<br />
10. Describe the common vectors of diseases and methods of vector control.<br />
11. Describe the various insecticides that are used for vector control.<br />
12. Describe insecticide resistance.<br />
Contents<br />
• Environment:<br />
– housing<br />
– physical environment inside and outside the home<br />
– family environment<br />
• Water<br />
• Waste<br />
• Air pollution, green house effect, ozone layer<br />
• Noise and radiation pollution<br />
• Vectors of disease<br />
• Vector Control and insecticidal resistance.<br />
4. BIOSTATISTICS<br />
Objectives<br />
At the end of the course the student should be able to:<br />
1. Define, calculate and interpret commonly used statistical methods.<br />
2. Select and use appropriate diagrammatic representations of statistical data.
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