1. Define community medicine. What
are its aims and objectives?
Ans: Community
Medicine: According to WHO’ (1972)
Community Medicine is, “A system of delivery
of comprehensive health care to the individual or family at the level of the
community by a health team in order to promote physical mental and social
well-being ”
Aims and objective of community medicine
Tow types of aims and objectives are as below –
(a) General
objectives: To provide clinical skill knowledge attitude to the students
concerning delivery of the comprehensive health care to the people form the
available source.
(b) Specific
objective:
(i) To provide clinical skill to
the students at all levels for deaconess, screening referral treatment and
follow up.
(ii) To provide knowledge of skill to
the students in public health administration, including- planning, organizing,
budgeting, supervision, recording, reporting and evolution.
(iii) To
provide skill to be able to do public health work, such as-
(a)
Epidemiology of disease.
(b) Control
of communicable disease.
(c) Environment
sanitation.
(d) Biostatistics.