Textbook of Biotechnology

This book describes aptly the basic principles and concepts of community medicine (preventive & social medicine) and attempts to develop epidemiological thinking, critical analysis, and positive attitudes towards the discipline of preventive & social medicine. It makes use of real-life field situations of health care delivery system to explain the varied aspects of epidemiology, health management, national health programmer, reproductive & child health, environmental & occupational health. Case study/caselet methods have been deliberately attempted to relate live field experiences with the text to enrich and facilitate learning the concept and application of social sciences, behavioural sciences, organization behaviour, community diagnosis and behaviour change, communication and health counselling. Written in a lucid, easy to read style in sequential manner, this book is intended primarily for undergraduate (MBBS and BDS) and postgraduate medical students as well as nursing students. This book can also serve as extremely useful guide for teachers in community medicine. health administrators/managers, policy-makers and decision-makers. 1 orientation to community medicine, social and behavioural sciences. 2 application of social and behavioural sciences in health and disease. 3 concept of health-health policy and goals. 4 population problem: high fertility and mortality. 5 reproductive and child health, policy and programmes in india. 6 applied nutrition. 7 environmental health. 8 epidemiology and its applications. 9 applied biostatistics. 10 epidemiology of communicable diseases and national health programmes. 11 epidemiology of non-communicable diseases and national health programmes. 12 health management. 13 occupational health. 14 geriatrics. 15 medical entomology. 16 medical genetics. 17 disaster management. 18 hospital waste management. 19 research and medical ethics. 20 international health.