Essentials of Community Medicine 3rd/2023

This book is an outcome of a teacher’s personal teaching experience over a period of 50 years in Central Government Medical Colleges, Karnataka State Government Medical Colleges and SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Karnataka, India. The changes in affiliations of medical colleges from traditional local university affiliations are kept in mind while the revision. NMC new curriculum has been followed thoroughly for Community Medicine.

• Prepared as per the competency Based Medical Education Curriculum (NMC).
• New chapters and topics are added such as Essential Medicine, Hospital Waste Management, Social Security, Disaster Management, Medical Informatics, Rational Drug Management, Urban Health, Medical Ethics and PH Law.
• Also included Ayushman Bharat Programme, Dengue Burden, Janani Suraksha Yojana, Millennium Development Goals, Nipah Virus Infection, NITI Aayog 2017-2020, NHP 2017, NUHM, Recent Global TB Strategy, Right of Persons with Disability Bill 2016, Trends in Recent Immunization, Tribal Health and Zika Viral Infection.
• Relevant items are indexed to facilitate cross references.