📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🌍 Community Medicine
- Define occupational health and discuss its importance.
- Describe ergonomics.
- Describe the principles and responsibilities of an Occupational Health Officer.
- Enumerate physical hazards including heat, cold, noise, light, vibration, pressure effects and radiation.
- Discuss the adverse health effects and preventive measures for physical hazards.
- Enumerate chemical hazards including inorganic and organic dusts, metals and chemicals.
- Discuss the adverse health effects and preventive measures for chemical hazards.
- Describe mechanical hazards and their control measures.
- Discuss control of biological hazards.
- Describe psychosomatic stressors and their control measures.
- Describe the types, prevalence and statistics of snakebite.
- Discuss prevention and management of snakebite and factors contributing to poor management.
- Describe medical, engineering and legal measures for prevention of occupational hazards.
- Discuss the role and benefits of health insurance.
- Discuss social-security schemes and their benefits.
