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Lecture available here: http://www.ihatepsm.com/resource/national-program-control-blindness-npcb
• launched in the year 1976 as a 100% Centrally Sponsored scheme
• Goal: reduce the prevalence:
– From 1.4% ->0.3%
– (As per 2006-7 survey, the prevalence was 1.0%)
• Various activities/initiatives undertaken during the Five Year Plans under NPCB are targeted towards achieving the goal of reducing the prevalence of blindness to 0.3% by the year 2020.

Lecture available here: http://www.ihatepsm.com/resource/management-techniques-health-1

For lecture click: http://www.ihatepsm.com/resource/health-planning
Health Planning is defined as: The process of

Commonly used tests of significance are

For qualitative data: (comparing two proportions)

• Standard error of difference between two proportions
• Chi – square test

For quantitative data: (comparing two means)

• Unpaired – t test (the t – test)
• ‘Z’ – test
• Paired t – test

Chi – square test
• Applied on qualitative data
• Equally applicable on small and large samples
• Can be applied if there are more than 2 categories

Definition of an ‘Epidemic’
The occurrence in a community, of cases of a particular disease in numbers which are clearly ‘in excess’ of that ‘expected’ for that population and for that time of the year

The first blog in the series was Epidemiology-1.

Incidence:

It is number of NEW cases occurring in a defined population during a specified period of time.
Formula of Incidence:
(no.of NEW cases in a defined population during a specified time period )/(Population at risk during the same time period) X 1000

Prevalence:

Definition of ‘Epidemiology’

The study of distribution and determinants of health related states in specified populations and the application of this study to control the health problems.

Aims of Epidemiology

1. Describing disease and health related events in specified populations
2. Understanding causation of disease and
3. To provide data for planning of health services

Types of data:

I. Qualitative-

India’s achievements on Millennium Developmental Goals (MDG)
Link: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-way-behind-on-world-health-organisation-health-targets/article7202411.ece

Yes, you see it right. It indeed is!!

Yet, the undergraduate students often find it to be very tough and demanding. The need is to clarify the concepts to the students. If the concepts are simplified for them, it’s like a cakewalk.

Reading the textbooks after this would also be easier. Moreover it is the concept that matters and not just mugging up the dates, objectives, rates etc.

The website: www.ihatepsm.com has been planned with this purpose.