
Explore the evolution of public health from ancient health practices to modern comprehensive health care, tracing cholera, germ theory, and the shift from disease control to health for all.
Defines health and its dimensions, introduces positive health, and outlines key health indicators—PQLI, HDI, mortality and morbidity measures, DALYs, and primary health care under Alma-Ata and SDGs.
Explore disease concepts, including illness and sickness, causation and the epidemiological triangle, and the natural history of the disease and iceberg model revealing susceptibility, subclinical and clinical stages, and recovery.
Explore disease control concepts, including elimination and eradication, and how monitoring, surveillance, and vaccination-driven interventions interrupt transmission and guide public health policy.
Explore the four levels of disease prevention, primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary, along with health promotion, specific protection, early diagnosis and treatment, and disability rehabilitation to reduce risk.
Explore the definition, distribution, and determinants of health in populations, learn how disease frequency is measured with rates, ratios, and proportions, and examine mortality and case fatality rates.
Useful for public health/community medicine students or anyone who is interested in knowing the various concepts in the field of public health. After knowing these basic principles, you can apply this knowledge to the real-world problems and come up with beautiful ideas that can change the world. Recent pandemic has taught us the importance of public health and how various principles have been applied to stop further spreading of the pandemic. This course can be helpful for medical, dental and allied subjects’ students to develop your public health knowledge through several folds. Jonas Salk once said “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality”. You can live by this motto. You can your mission to prevent disease and promote health. Whether it’s being a sub investigator for clinical trials, implementing, monitoring & evaluating Tuberculosis elimination program, conducting surveillance for Polio, Measles, Diphtheria, Rubella, Tetanus, monitoring and evaluating routine immunization services or providing the technical support for covid19 pandemic, you can take pride in proving the best inputs in record time while always leading with kindness. This course acts as your foundation, upon which you can build your knowledge based on real world scenarios.