Course Outline
Course Outline
Final Part I M.B.,B.S.
Subject contents are outlined under four major headings. The scope of content covers all aspects of teaching - learning experiences relating to lectures, demonstrations, tutorials, field teaching etc.
A. CONCEPT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE
- History and evolution of Preventive & Social Medicine.
- Concept of Health.
- Community medicine: concept and practice.
- Measurement of Health.
- Factors influencing Health.
- Mental Health
- Definition and scope of Social medicine.
B. DISEASE CONTROL
- General epidemiology (including methodology)
- Principles of prevention and control.
- Natural history of disease.
- Levels of prevention.
- Immunizations.
- 17 diseases under national surveillance.
- International health regulations.
- Communicable diseases.
- Plague
- Cholera
- Dengue haemorrhagic fever
- Japanese encephalitis
- Small pox
- Diphtheria
- Poliomyelitis
- Whooping cough
- Tetanus
- Measles
- Malaria
- Trachoma
- Tuberculosis
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Filariasis
- Leprosy
- Enteric fevers
- Food poisoning
- Leptospirosis
- Diarrhea and dysentery
- Anthrax
- Influenza
- Viral hepatitis
- Rabies
- Arbor viruses
- Yellow fever
- Rickettsial diseases
- Intestinal helminthiasis
- Non - communicable diseases
- Nutritional diseases: PEM, Iron deficiency anaemia, goiter.
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Malignancies
- Accidents
- Hormonal diseases: Diabetes, Thyrotoxicosis
- Mental disorders
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C. HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
1. Principles of management.
- Health administration in Myanmar
- National Health Plan
- Health education
- Biomedical statistics and vital statistics
- International health
- Public health laws
- Maternal and child health
- School health
- Occupational health in industry and agriculture.
- Care of handicapped persons 11. Care of aged persons (Geriatric Health)
- Juvenile delinquency.
- Drug addiction.
- Nutrition promotion and rehabilitation services.
- Problem children: Deprived children, Behavioural disorders of children.
- Primary Health Care.
- Health for all beyond 2000
- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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D. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- Water sanitation.
- Housing and health
- Excreta disposal
- Refuse disposal
- Food sanitation
- Management of fairs and festivals
- Disinfection and disinfectants / Insecticides
- Pest control
- Disaster Management
- Climate Change
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E. FIELD TEACHING PROGRAMME
- Clinico-social case taking and presentation
- Family health care visits to suburban communities
- Visits to places of public health interest in urban areas.
Residential field training to townships and rural areas
