community medicine

1. COMMUNITY MEDICINE

2. HEALTH
Complete
Physical
Mental &
Social well being
& not merely the absence of disease.

3. Health

5. COMMUNITY
⚫ A group of people living in the same place or
having a particularcharacteristic in common.
⚫ The condition of sharing or having certain
attitudes and interests in common.

6. Community Medicines
in order to improve the health of the community.
A system of
to the people ( by a health team)
Health care on Epidemiological
basis includes:
Promotive
Preventive
Curative
Health care on Health care Syst:
management basis includes:
Primary Health Care (PHC)
Secondary care
Tertiary care

7. Community Medicines
⚫ Art & science of application of technical knowledge &
skills to the delivery of health care to a given community,
designed in collaboration with related professions as
well as human & social sciences on one hand &
community on the other.
Synonymouswith
Preventive Medicine
Social Medicine
Public Health
& Community Health

8. Community Medicine & Public health
⚫It is an aspect of medical
practice.
Biostatistics
Epidemiology &
other fields.
(-Administration: Planning,
organization etc,
-Envir. & Occup : health,
- Application of Primary,
secondary, Tertiary
Preventive measures)
⚫ “Basic science” of CM.
⚫“Public” people of
community, who decide that
concerned action is needed,
to accomplish its goals.

9. Public Health
Preventing Disease
⚫Art & science of Prolonging Life
& Promoting
Physical & Mental health &
Efficiency
through organized communityefforts for:
(3) Development of social
machinery
Which will ensure to:
Every individual in community
a standard of living adequate for
maintenance of health.

10. ⚫Public Health
⚫ Prevent disease, prolong life, and promote health
through organized community efforts, including:
Health and Medicine
⚫ sanitation,
⚫ hygiene education,
⚫ diagnoses, and
⚫ preventative treatment

11. Organized community efforts
Agencies concerned
Govt: hospitals & health deptt:
Voluntary agencies like
TB, public health associations, Medical
associations.
Municipal corporations
Cantonment Boards Social
securities councils,
Railways & Industrial organizations

12. Preventive Medicine
Preventing Disease
⚫Art & science of Prolonging Life
Mental health
& Promoting
Physical &
& Efficacy
For groups & communities
By public health
practitioners Public
Health
For Individuals & families
By private health
practitioners Medical &
Dental
Preventive Medicine
Practice

13. Social Medicine
⚫It is studyof man in his
Physical Biological & Socio economic
environment

14. PUBLIC HEALTH PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(Br: of Medicine)
SOCIAL MEDICINE
Science & Art of
Preventing Disease
Prolonging Life
& Promoting health
Through organized
efforts of society
(1) Sanitation of Environment
Science & Art of
Preventing Disease
Prolonging Life
& Promoting health
By public health
practitioners
groups & communities
By private health
practitioners (Med: & Dental)
For Individuals & families
It is study of man in his
Physical
Biological
& Socio economic
environment
(2) Organization of medical &
nursing services for:
Early Diagnosis
& Prompt Treatment
& preventionof Disease
(3) Develop:of social machinery
ensure to: standard of living
adequate for maintenance of
health.
COMMUNITY MEDICINE
Art & science of application of
technical knowledge & skills to the delivery of health care to a given community.

15. Comparison of clinical & community Medicine
Clinical Medicine Community Medicine
1. Aim Ill or Diseased person
T
o shorten morbidity
& prevent mortality.
Explore methods
Which would reverse
or eliminate disease state
2. Objective Patient
Cure Pt: of disease
3. Information
Required
Clinical History
Physical examination
& Laboratory Tests
Whole Population
To reduce unnecessary
morbidity & premature
mortality.
Explore greatest potential
For health improvement.
Community
Improve
health status
Population data
Health problems, Disease pattern, availability of
health services,
Felt needs of the community

16. 4. Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis &
Probable Diagnosis
Community Diagnosis
5. Action Plan Treatment &
Rehabilitation
Community health program
6. Evaluation Follow up &
Assessment
Evaluation of change in
health status

17. Clinical Medicine Community Medicine

18. MODERN MEDICINE
⚫ Curative Medicine: Removal of Disease
⚫ Preventive / Comm Medicine: Prevention of disease
⚫ Social Medicine: Study of man as a social being in his total
environment.
⚫ Family Medicine: Family oriented medicine

19. Community Specialists Work
⚫Teaching
⚫Community oriented clinical practice
(health promotion, Disease prevention)
⚫Assessment & Control
(Occup: Health problems, Research)
⚫Set priorities & Develop programs
⚫Implement program
⚫Develop skills in evaluating program