Crisp and precise, consolidating the essential topics and removing dead woods and less relevant topics.
-Designed and prepared by the group of current teachers of community medicine; who are better aware about needs and issue pertaining to community medicine teaching.
-This is the only textbook based on competency-based curriculum for community medicine, as prescribed by National Medical Commission.
-Divided into 5 sections: Basics of Health and Diseases, Core and Allied Sciences, Community Health Problems and Vulnerable Groups, Community Health Management, and Managing Community Health in India. These are neatly organized; progressing in logical manner from – basic science (for first year students) to applied science in form of community diagnosis and community interventions (for second and third year students)
-Use of most recent and up-to-date data to define the magnitude of the health problems; including use of ICMR-NIN 2020 Expert Recommendations for Nutrition, SRS Bulletin Reports 2020, Annual Reports 2020 for Communicable and Non-communicable diseases by Government of India, WHO Global Reports 2020, Global Health Observatory Data 2020, etc.
-The key references and sources for all data is now cited alongside the text only.
-Inclusion of newer topics pertaining to communicable and non-communicable diseases like Epidemiology of emerging diseases (including COVID-19) and its prevention and control, Epidemiology of COPD and its prevention and control, Screening and Surveillance of NCDs, Food safety, etc.
-Novel topics on community health care: Urban, Rural and Tribal health; Travellers health; Climate change and health; Global and National Health Status; Community health and its management; Health care delivery system; Health systems management; Leadership; Health legislations and many more are included which are not adequately covered in other textbooks of the subject.
-In depth understanding of the topics supported by case studies, illustrations, figures, flowcharts, key messages, etc.