Community Medicine
Community medicine studies health and disease at population level and designs preventive, promotive and health-service responses to community needs.
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Community Medicine
Subject Summary
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Community medicine studies health and disease at population level and designs preventive, promotive and health-service responses to community needs.
The subject connects measures of disease burden, screening, communicable and non-communicable conditions, maternal-child health, nutrition, environment, occupations, demography, health systems and disaster response.
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| Concept | High-yield point |
|---|---|
| Incidence | New cases over time; use the at-risk denominator |
| Prevalence | Existing cases in the defined population |
| Sensitivity | TP / (TP + FN) |
| Specificity | TN / (TN + FP) |
| Positive predictive value | TP / (TP + FP) |
| Negative predictive value | TN / (TN + FN) |
| Risk reduction | Primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary prevention |
| Occupational controls | Elimination → substitution → engineering → administrative → PPE |
Core references
- Park K. Park’s Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine. Banarsidas Bhanot.
- Gordis L. Gordis Epidemiology. Elsevier.
- World Health Organization. Public-health, primary-health-care and health-promotion technical resources.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice.
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