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🧬 Theme I — Molecules and Bacteria
🧬 Theme II — Aging and Death
Foundation-II Module — 3rd Year MBBS

📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

🌍 Community Medicine

 

Foundations of Community Medicine and Public Health

  • Define Community Medicine, Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
  • Describe the role of public health teaching in disease prevention.
  • Discuss the history and philosophy of public health and its regional and global concepts and functions.

Health and Disease

  • Describe the stages in the natural history of disease.
  • Describe the epidemiological triad, web of causation and multifactorial causation.
  • Describe dimensions and determinants of health.
  • Describe indicators of health and their characteristics.
  • Explain the natural history of disease.
  • Describe the iceberg phenomenon.

Disease Prevention and Control

  • Discuss the concept of disease control.
  • Discuss levels of prevention and their modes of intervention.
  • Describe modes of disease intervention with emphasis on health education.

Primary Health Care

  • Define Primary Health Care.
  • Describe its elements, principles and implementation strategies.
  • Describe Health for All by the year 2000.
  • Enumerate health-related MDGs and SDGs.
  • Describe the history of development of PHC.
  • Describe comprehensive and selective PHC.
  • Describe reasons for failure of PHC.
  • Describe health systems before and after PHC.
  • Describe the district healthcare system.
  • Enumerate indicators for assessing PHC.

Health System of Pakistan

  • Describe the healthcare system of Pakistan using the WHO health-system framework.

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