This book from CBS Publishers & Distributors is an English medium (अंग्रेज़ी माध्यम) title by Dr. Sunder Lal, Dr. Adarsh and Dr. Pankaj, covering community medicine, also taught as preventive and social medicine (निवारक एवं सामाजिक चिकित्सा). It is a full textbook — the book a student reads the subject from across the year, as opposed to a review volume or an examination manual.
The defining feature of this edition is how closely it is tied to the competency-based undergraduate curriculum for the Indian medical graduate. The book carries an index of competencies that maps its content directly to the CM competency codes, so a student or a teacher can see exactly where each listed competency — from defining health and the concept of holistic health, through public health and the determinants of health, to the agent-host-environment model and beyond — is addressed in the text. Integration of attitude, ethics and communication skills into the undergraduate curriculum is treated as part of the teaching rather than as an add-on.
On sourcing, the authors have drawn extensively on published material from the World Health Organization, UNICEF, NCDC-DGHS and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, the ICMR, PHFI and IHME. That matters in a subject where the marks sit in current figures and programme detail: mortality and morbidity data, programme targets, coverage rates and scheme particulars are only as good as their source, and here they are traceable. The subject coverage runs across the concept of health and disease, epidemiology and its methods, biostatistics, screening, communicable and non-communicable disease control, environmental health, occupational health, nutrition, maternal and child health, demography, health planning and management, health economics, and the national health programmes and policies. Dr. Sunder Lal is a long-standing name in Indian community medicine teaching, and the book has been acclaimed over successive editions for its coverage and its treatment of the subject. The whole book is written in English in the Roman script.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script), not in Hindi
By Dr. Sunder Lal, Dr. Adarsh and Dr. Pankaj, published by CBS Publishers & Distributors
Sixth edition
As per the competency-based undergraduate curriculum for the Indian medical graduate
Index of competencies mapping the text to CM competency codes
Attitude, ethics and communication skills integrated into the teaching
A full textbook for reading the subject, not a review or question book
Content drawn from WHO, UNICEF, NCDC-DGHS, MoHFW, ICMR, PHFI and IHME publications
Covers the concept of health and disease and the determinants of health
Covers epidemiology, study designs and epidemiological methods
Covers biostatistics and screening for disease
Covers communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology and control
Covers environmental health, occupational health and nutrition
Covers maternal and child health, demography and family welfare
Covers health planning, health management and health economics
Covers national health programmes and policies with current data
Written by teachers of the subject, with contributions acknowledged from senior faculty at LHMC and PGI Chandigarh
Suitable for MBBS community medicine theory, practical and viva examinations
Also a useful base text for postgraduate students beginning in the subject
सीबीएस पब्लिशर्स एंड डिस्ट्रीब्यूटर्स द्वारा प्रकाशित डॉ. सुंदर लाल, डॉ. आदर्श तथा डॉ. पंकज की 'Textbook of Community Medicine — Preventive and Social Medicine' का यह छठा संस्करण सामुदायिक चिकित्सा (निवारक एवं सामाजिक चिकित्सा) की पूर्ण पाठ्यपुस्तक है — रिव्यू अथवा प्रश्न पुस्तक नहीं। यह संस्करण भारतीय चिकित्सा स्नातक हेतु निर्धारित दक्षता-आधारित (Competency Based) स्नातक पाठ्यक्रम के अनुरूप है तथा इसमें दक्षताओं की अनुक्रमणिका (Index of Competencies) दी गई है, जिससे प्रत्येक CM दक्षता का संबंधित अंश पुस्तक में सीधे खोजा जा सकता है। अभिवृत्ति, नैतिकता एवं संप्रेषण कौशल (AETCOM) को भी पाठ्यक्रम का अभिन्न भाग मानकर सम्मिलित किया गया है। सामग्री WHO, UNICEF, NCDC-DGHS, स्वास्थ्य एवं परिवार कल्याण मंत्रालय, ICMR, PHFI तथा IHME के प्रकाशनों पर आधारित है। इसमें स्वास्थ्य एवं रोग की अवधारणा, महामारी विज्ञान, जैव सांख्यिकी, संचारी एवं गैर-संचारी रोग नियंत्रण, पर्यावरणीय एवं व्यावसायिक स्वास्थ्य, पोषण, मातृ-शिशु स्वास्थ्य, जनांकिकी, स्वास्थ्य नियोजन तथा राष्ट्रीय स्वास्थ्य कार्यक्रम सम्मिलित हैं। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है, हिन्दी में नहीं।
