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Key Features

• Updated as per the Competency-based Medical Education Curriculum (NMC). • A comprehensive guide to community medicine for undergraduates. • Exhaustive coverage of questions commonly asked in theory examinations. • Separate chapters assimilating different patterns of theory questions in-depth discussion about all the topics asked in practical and viva voce. • Written in an easily accessible manner and illustrative way. • Includes latest guidelines of different diseases and health programs in India. Some of the important updates • Revised National TB Control Programme • Revised Malaria control guidelines (2022) • Revised guidelines on initiation of antiretroviral therapy (2022) • COVID-19 updates (2022) • New vaccines being introduced in Universal Immunization Program (2017) • Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (2016) • National switch from trivalent OPV to bivalent OPV (2016) • ESI Act updates (2016) • New biomedical waste management and handling rules (2016) • New treatment guidelines on kala-azar (2015) • Revised IMCI guidelines (2014) • Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (2014) • RMNCH+A strategy • Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram • National Iron Plus Initiative • Most recent health-related statistics