A Comprehensive Textbook of Community Medicine

The topics under the subject of community medicine: preventive and social medicine, the b00k gives in detail the demographic profile of India with future projection of population till 2050, along with the indicators of rate, median age, dependency rate, potential support ratio, life expectancy, survival rate, sex ratio, labour force participation and theory of ageing. New emerging diseases such as bird flu, chickunguniya, HIV / AIDS have also been described in the chapter on epidemiology of communicable diseases, besides the epidemiology of communicable diseases and general epidemiology.

Apart from childhood immunisations, the chapter on immunisation also includes adult immunisation program, a topic which has gained importance with the growing adult population. Topics such as community ophthalmology, community psychiatry, community dentistry, Kyoto protocol, bioterrorism, ozone as a protector and pollutant, and many other newer subjects ranging from the national to community levels have been described.