Preventive medicine
Elements of a plan (health planning)
A plan is a blueprint for taking action It has 5 important elements objective – the thing to be attained policy – guiding principles to be followed in
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Category: Preventive medicine
Preventive medicine
Risk approach in antenatal care
Risk approach in antenatal care aims at identifying the high risk antenatal cases so as to provide specialised care, and appropriate level of care for others The high
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Preventive medicine
Maternal and Child health problems in India
The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) problems in India (and other developing countries) are: Malnutrition Most people in the developing countries are malnourished Malnutrition has a significant impact
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Acronyms
MCH – Acronym
MCH stands for: Maternal and Child Health
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Preventive medicine
Social pediatrics
Social paediatrics deals with the application of the principles of social medicine to better understand the problems of children and to use this knowledge in the prevention of
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Preventive medicine
Preventive paediatrics
Preventive pediatrics aims at the prevention of disease in children rather than focusing on cure of disease By preventing disease, the child can attain it’s genetic potential There
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Preventive medicine
Stages in maternity cycle
The stages in maternity cycle are: Fertilisation Prenatal period Intranatal period Postnatal period Interconceptional period
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Preventive medicine
Social obstetrics
Social obstetrics is the branch of preventive medicine that studies the relationship between social and environmental factors and human reproduction, even in preconceptional and pre marital period The
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Acronyms
ICRC – Acronym
ICRC stands for: International Committee of the Red Cross
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