Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health Administration

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Public Health Administration– PGD

Contents

1. Historical background of public health concepts of health and disease.

2. Social services: - relevance of social sciences in Medicine, psycholosocial and

cultural determents of health socal security, social science research methods –

qualitative and quantitative.

3. Prinicples of epidemiological methods, uses with special reference to health care

delivery, planning and conduct of epidemiological studies, epidemiologic

surveillance and epidemic preparedness, investigation of epidemic, disease

screening.

4. Biostatistics: Relevance and use of statistics in Medicine, analysis and presentation

of data, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, normal distribution,

tests of significance, correlation and regression. Analysis of qualitative data

sources of vital statistics.

5. Hospital and health information systems: - Importance, components, recording and

reporting in the health services system use of computers in health care system.

6. Demography: Basic principles, problems of population explosion, indices of

fertility.

7. Health Administration: Health care system in India and developed countries, Five

year plans, panchayat raj system, community development programme,

decentralization, motivation leadership supervision, performance appraisal,

Management of resources.

8. Health Planning management.

9. National Health Programmes: Details of implementation and evaluation.

10. Hospital Management: Hospital Pharmacy: Procurement and distribution of drugs,

equipments and other consumables, hospital waste management including

biomedical waste management, contingency planning. (Will be included in only Post Graduate Diploma not in JUST DIPLOMA)

11. Epidemiology of communicable and non communicable disease

12. Occupation health

13. Environmental health

14. Nutrition

15. MCH and family welfare

16. Mental Heath

17. Genetics and heredity

18. International health and regulation

19. Public health laws (Will be included in only Post Graduate Diploma not in JUST DIPLOMA)

20. Health education, communication process and methods planning and organization

of health education activities

21. Voluntary health agencies and NGOs.

22. Entomology and Parasitology – vectors and parasites of public health importance.

23. Microbiology: Important diagnostic and screening tests, methods of collection and

transpiration of specimens and sample vaccines.

24. Disinfection procedures:

25. Public Health chemistry.

26. Public Health Laboratory service.

Section 2 (Will be included in only Post Graduate Diploma not in JUST DIPLOMA)

1. Interpretation and utilization of surveillance data for effective prevention and

management of epidemics.

2. Carrying out investigation of outbreaks

3. Organizing and conducting surveys as part of programme evaluation

4. Organizing and conducting health care service companions such as national

immunization days.

5. Formulation of strategies and organization IEC activities at various levels from the

district level to the periphery.

6. Acquiring clinical skills at the generalist level in relation to common health

problems and MCH

7. Acquiring skills to use computer as an aid to their routine functions.

8. Entomology: Identification of common parasites and vector species interpretation

and use of water quality analysis kits.

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