An Ultimate Guide to Community Medicine

In the fourth edition, we have kept the same concise format in order to remain the only student-friendly reference guide of the subject. Yet we have added new contents and updates. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and improvised with the most recent guidelines.

Key Features :

• Updated as per the Competency-based Medical Education Curriculum (NMC).
• A comprehensive guide to community medicine for undergraduates.
• Exhaustive coverage of questions commonly asked in theory examinations.
• Separate chapters assimilating different patterns of theory questions in-depth discussion about all the topics asked in practical and viva voce.
• Written in an easily accessible manner and illustrative way.
• Includes latest guidelines of different diseases and health programs in India.
• Some of the important updates
• Revised National TB Control Programme
• Revised Malaria control guidelines (2022)
• Revised guidelines on initiation of antiretroviral therapy (2022)
• COVID-19 updates (2022)
• New vaccines being introduced in Universal Immunization Program (2017)
• Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (2016)
• National switch from trivalent OPV to bivalent OPV (2016)
• ESI Act updates (2016)
• New biomedical waste management and handling rules (2016)
• New treatment guidelines on kala-azar (2015)
• Revised IMCI guidelines (2014)
• Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (2014)
• RMNCH+A strategy
• Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram
• National Iron Plus Initiative
• Most recent health-related statistics