📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🌍 Community Medicine
- Pakistan health-care system using the WHO health-system framework.
- Primary health care: definition, history, concepts and components.
- Comprehensive versus selective PHC.
- Reasons for failure of PHC.
- Health systems before and after PHC.
- District health-care system.
- Indicators for assessing PHC.
- Health education: definition, objectives, functions, components and methods.
- Communication channels and constraints in health education.
- Theories, stages and principles of health education.
- Strategies for effective health-education programmes.
- Evaluation of health-education projects.
- HMIS: concept, components, importance, principles and causes of failure.
- Hospital administration: health-care delivery system, need, administrator attributes, functions and levels.
- Health plans: types and characteristics.
- MDGs: health-related goals, targets, indicators and reasons for failure.
- SDGs: health-related goals, targets, indicators and Pakistan’s progress.
- Health planning: definition, importance, planning cycle, types and reasons for ineffective planning.
- Health economics: definition, importance and economic-evaluation tools.
- Health policy: definition, role, stages, types, constraints and Pakistan health policy.
- International health agencies.
- WHO and UNICEF: structure, functions and roles in Pakistan.
