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Public Health

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ABOUT THE COURSE:This course introduces the concepts of Public health and hygiene & health determinants, and provide knowledge about various food components and to educate about communicable and non-communicable diseases. The course will provide awareness and education about various disease preventive and control measures. Students will understand the importance of food components and their deficiency related diseases and balanced diet. The students will learn about causes, and preventive measures of communicable diseases. This course will make the students understand about the cause of life style diseases and how to control them.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Undergraduate and postgraduate level students with interest in Zoology and/or Life Sciences and/or Biomedical Sciences.PREREQUISITES: 12th PCBM and BScINDUSTRY SUPPORT: Public Health sector of Government and NGOs.

Syllabus

Week 1:
  1. Introduction to Public Health
  2. Introduction to Health and Hygiene
  3. Determinants of Public Health
  4. Factors Affecting Health and Hygiene-I
  5. Factors Affecting Health and Hygiene-II

Week 2:
  1. Personal Hygiene
  2. Community Hygiene
  3. Environment and Health associated hazards
  4. Water borne diseases
  5. Air borne diseases

Week 3:
  1. Prevention of diseases through health education
  2. Principles of health education
  3. Prevention of diseases through environmental improvements
  4. Physical and Biological environment and health
  5. Relation between Health, Hygiene & Sanitation

Week 4:
  1. Balanced diet
  2. Malnutrition
  3. Diseases caused by the deficiency of proteins, carbohydrates and fats
  4. Diseases caused by vitamin deficiencies
  5. Diseases caused by mineral deficiencies

Week 5:
  1. Food adulteration-1
  2. Food adulteration-2
  3. Nutritional problems in India
  4. Nutrition related government programs in India-1
  5. Nutrition related government programs in India-2

Week 6:
  1. Health care system in India-1
  2. Health care system in India-2
  3. National health programmes in India
  4. National health policies in India
  5. National Rural Health Mission (2005-2012)

Week 7:
  1. Current scenario of health and hygiene in India
  2. Infectious agents responsible for communicable diseases in humans
  3. COVID-19
  4. Measles
  5. Polio

Week 8:
  1. Chikungunya
  2. Rabies
  3. Leprosy
  4. Tuberculosis
  5. AIDS

Week 9:
  1. Hepatitis
  2. Dengue
  3. Parasitic diseases
  4. Malaria
  5. Vaccines and vaccination programmes in India

Week 10:
  1. Non-communicable and life style diseases and their preventive and control measures
  2. Hypertension
  3. Coronary heart disease
  4. Rheumatic heart diseases
  5. Stroke

Week 11:
  1. Diabetes
  2. Obesity
  3. Mental ill health
  4. Cancer
  5. Public Health enemy number one-Tobacco

Week 12:
  1. Injuries and occupational health
  2. Maternal and child health as a social problem
  3. Solid, Medical and Hazardous wastes
  4. Public health and the aging population
  5. Public health in the twenty-first Century: Achievements and challenges

Taught by

Prof. G. G. Hammad Ahmad Shadab

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