Community Medicine With Recent Advances

This edition, retaining the same elegant cover page, has been thoroughly revised and updated. Efforts have been made to incorporate recent advances in the field of community medicine as per the title of the book. New major topics included are Artificial Intelligence in Health Care, Indigenous System of Medicine in India, Slow Virus Disease, Breast Cancer, Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Central Drug Standard Control Organization, Rights of the Patients in India, and Health Services Research. Minor topics included are Standards of a Slaughterhouse, Investigations of AEFI, Six Pillars of Lifestyle Diseases, Obesity Among School Children, Natural History of Cancer, Cervavac Vaccine, Notification of Diseases, Models of Health Education, Social Mobilization, Immunization Schedule of Adolescents, Health Budgeting, Evaluation of Health Services, Novel BPaL Regimen, SAANS, Treatment Regimen for Tuberculosis, Black Fungus in COVID-19, and HIV Sentinel Surveillance. Revised and rewritten topics are Food Standards, IAP Immunization Schedule for Children, Epidemiological Indicators of Tuberculosis, TB and HIV, Epidemiology of Fluorosis, Demographic Profile of India, Provision of Primary Healthcare in Rural India, Epidemiological Surveillance of Malaria, Nipah Virus Disease, International Labour Organization, National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Elimination Programme, and many more. Syllabus is covered as per the competency-based medical education curriculum, as prescribed by National Medical Commission. Suggestions are welcome by the readers for the improvement of the next edition.