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lecture available on: http://www.ihatepsm.com/resource/management-techniques-health
Management Techniques in Health Care Can Be Classified as Given Below

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Definition of Bio-medical waste (as per Biomedical rules (Handling and Management) rules, 1998), Min of Environment and Forests, GOI
Bio-medical waste means “any waste which is generated during
– the diagnosis,
– treatment or
– immunization of human beings or animals or
– in research activities or

Lecture available on: http://www.ihatepsm.com/resource/blindness
Definition of Blindness: WHO 2011
“Visual acuity of less than 3/60 (Snellen’s chart) or its equivalent”
Equivalent of < 3/60: Inability to count fingers in daylight at a distance of 3 meters
(3/60 is practically equivalent to counting fingers in daylight at a distance of 3 meters)
(Similarly, 1/60 is practically equivalent to counting fingers in daylight at a distance of 1 meters)
Leads to:

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

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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: