📘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.
