This book is an attempt to bring out a smaller volume on public health especially to cater to the needs of students and public health personnel like sanitary inspectors, nurses and doctors. The language of the text is easy to understand and enhances the clarity of the principles and concepts. The contents have been organized into 9 chapters. The initial chap... [More]

This book is an attempt to bring out a smaller volume on public health especially to cater to the needs of students and public health personnel like sanitary inspectors, nurses and doctors. The language of the text is easy to understand and enhances the clarity of the principles and concepts. The contents have been organized into 9 chapters. The initial chapters discuss strategies for providing health care, concepts in preventing diseases, epidemiology of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases. Includes demography, family planning and maternal, child health, nutrition, school health service and principles of health education. The last chapters deal with health systems and health care programmes, basic statistics in health care, disinfection procedures, vector control methods, immunization schedule, etc.[Less]

The book focuses on the “An Ultimate Guide to Community Medicine”. The book “Textbook of Lasers in Dermatology” has the intention of sharing with the Indian community medicine, and with the entire world. All the chapters are brief, clear and concise to provide students an understandable text and recent developments in the field. This book is divided into fiv... [More]

The book focuses on the “An Ultimate Guide to Community Medicine”. The book “Textbook of Lasers in Dermatology” has the intention of sharing with the Indian community medicine, and with the entire world. All the chapters are brief, clear and concise to provide students an understandable text and recent developments in the field. This book is divided into five sections which comprise total 22 chapters. With very good and explicit illustrations, diagrams, and appropriate tables, they offer an extremely useful volume that will surely become a reference text. The first section deals with the introduction to community medicine. The second section covers the guide to theory examination including long essay type questions, problem type questions, short notes, justify/explain why and differences. The third section discusses the viva voce including immunization, family planning, specimens and definitions. The fourth section describes the guide to practical examination including statistical and epidemiological exercises, family, project and problem cards. Finally, the last section focuses on special topics such as integrated management of neonatal and childhood illnesses (IMNCI) guidelines, acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance, tuberculosis and Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP), reproductive and child health, diagnosis and treatment of malaria, incubation period of some important diseases, national health policy and elimination of some diseases, and current public health related statistics of India.[Less]

Clinical research is a different ball game but is not a rocket science. A lot of young doctors and students tend to get intimidated with epidemiology and biostatistics. The very purpose of this text book is to narrate in a very simple language the basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics. The book has placed equal emphasis over both epidemiology and ... [More]

Clinical research is a different ball game but is not a rocket science. A lot of young doctors and students tend to get intimidated with epidemiology and biostatistics. The very purpose of this text book is to narrate in a very simple language the basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics. The book has placed equal emphasis over both epidemiology and biostatistics part. In the epidemiology portion, attempt has been made to orient the reader with the importance of research, understanding of study design, measures of associations, measures of disease frequency, bias and confounding, concept of screening technique, skills of developing research protocol, data collection, ethical considerations, developing informed consent form and reference writing. In the biostatistics part, the reader will be explained the key concepts of sampling procedure, hypothesis testing, measures of central tendency, variables and data types, sample size estimation and data analysis plan. An attempt has been made to present the information in pictorial and tabular forms, which are easy to understand and retain. Moreover, to clear the concepts multiple examples are given so that the learner could easily understand the key concepts. It has been noted that the postgraduate trainee face difficulty in drafting a research protocol, conducting research and writing a dissertation. Thus, a detailed description of components of Research protocol and dissertation writing has been included in this book.[Less]