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Syllabus for Public Health Officer | PSC NEPAL

by Nirdesh Baral
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Contents

1          Health and Public Health                                                                                5%

1.1.      Meaning of health and disease, Factors that influence health, concept of health and disease, Dimension of disease, Measurement of health, disease and well being

1.2       Public health concept, Historical development and changing concept

2          Health Planning and Management                                                                 20%

2.1       Approaches, models, methods and practices

2.2       Need assessment, planning cycle, Planning, monitoring and evaluation

2.3       Strategic and operational planning

2.4       Inventory management

2.5       Drug management

2.6       Financial management

2.7       Health  economics,  Health  care  financing:  Basic  concepts  and  economic evaluation of   health care services

2.8       Health care need assessment

2.9       Decentralization in health management

2.10     Quality assurance in health care

3          General Epidemiology                                                                                     10%

3.1       Definition, concepts, approaches, aims, and use of epidemiology

3.2       Epidemiological methods, Incidence, Prevalence, association and causation, disease prevention and control

3.3       Epidemiology of communicable and non communicable diseases

3.4       Dynamics of disease transmission

3.5       Investigation of an epidemics

3.6       Screening of diseases

3.7       Health indicators

4           Health Statistics                                                                                                 5%

4.1       Sources of health information, Health information system

4.2       Tabulation, graphic and diagrammatic presentation of data

4.3       Statistical methods; Measures of central tendency, Measures of variability

4.4       Sampling  size,  Sampling  survey  and  test  of  significance,  correlation  and regression

  1. Demography  5%

5.1       Population trends-world and national

5.2       Measures of population dynamics

5.3       Factors affecting fertility, mortality and migration

5.4       Urbanization, Life expectation

6          Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control                                                  20%

6.1       Epidemiology, Prevention and control of communicable diseases including:

Measles, Diphtheria, Whooping cough, Acute respiratory tract infection, Rubella,  Mumps,  Influenza,  Tuberculosis,  Viral  hepatitis,  Food  poisoning, Typhoid fever, Intestinal worms, Acute diarrhoeal diseases, Filaria, Leishmaniasis,  Malaria,  Japanese encephalitis,  Rabies,  Tetanus,  Trachoma, Leprosy, STD and HIV/AIDS

6.2       Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases

6.3       Concept of Control, elimination and eradication of diseases

7          Food and Nutrition                                                                                           5%

7.1       Nutritional profiles

7.2       Nutritional problems

7.3       Assessment of nutritional status

7.4       Food toxication, additives and fortification;

8          Environmental Health                                                                                      5%

8.1       Management  and  control  of  basic  and  fundamental  factors;  Water,  Air, Lighting, Noise, Housing

8.2       Solid waste disposal and control

8.3       Excreta disposal and control

8.4       Medical entomology-Mosquito, housefly, sand fly, lice, fleas, bugs etc. control

8.5       Insecticides safe use and resistance

8.6       Rodents control

9          Occupational Health                                                                                         5%

9.1       Occupational environment and safety

9.2       Occupational hazards

9.3       Management and prevention of occupational hazards

9.4       Measures for general health protection of workers

10        Health Education and Health Promotion                                                     10%

10.1     Concept, Objectives and principles and their importance

10.2     Methods of health education

10.3     Health education medias and production

10.4     Behavior change communication (BCC)

10.5     Community organization and participation

10.6     Communication and information: concepts and importance

10.7     School health program: concepts, areas and importance

11         Primary  Health  Care  (PHC),  Essential  Health  Care  Services  (EHCS)  and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)                                                        5%

11.1     Concept, Components, Status and Prospects

12        International Health                                                                                          5%

12.1     External development partners and their priorities

12.2     UN agencies: WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNAIDS and World Bank

12.3     Bilateral agencies working in Nepal: USAID, JICA, GTZ, DFID, SDC, CIDA, AUSAID, NORAD, FINIDA, KOIKA

 

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