COMMUNITY MEDICINE POWERPOINT LECTURES

community medicine,a branch of medicine that is concerned with the health of the members of a community, municipality, or region. The emphasis in community medicine is on the early diagnosis of disease, the recognition of environmental and occupational hazards to good health, and the prevention of disease in the community.

 Lecture 1 —Introduction, Part I

 Lecture 2 — Introduction, Part II

 Lecture 2a — History of Epidemiology & Public Health (

 Lecture 3 — Disease Transmission

 Lecture 4 — Measures of Morbidity

 Lectures 5 & 6 — Measures of Mortality
Mortality in Different Populations

 Lectures 7 & 8 — Validity & Reliability of Analytic Tests (Revised 2007)

 Lecture 9 — Descriptive Studies: Person, Place & Time (Revised 2007)

 Lecture 10 — Cohort Studies (Revised 2007)

 Lecture 11 — Case Control (Retrospective) Studies

 Lecture 12 — Cross-Sectional Studies

 Lecture 13 — Attributable & Relative Risks

 Lecture 14 — Experimental (Randomized) Studies

 Lecture 15 — Ethical Issues

 Lecture 16 — Association to Causation

SOURCE:David M. Rollins, Ph.D., Adjunct Lecturer University of Maryland