Syllabus

Course Code: MSW(C) -203    Course Name: Health Care, Needs and Services

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 - Health-concept and nature.
- Hygiene: personal and environmental, need and importance.
- Malnutrition: concept, causes and symptoms. Balanced diet: Concept & Importance.
- Main systems of body.
- Immunity and immunization of children.
- First Aid- concept and importance
2 - Common ailments and diseases: symptoms, causes, prevention and control of diseases caused by viruses: measles, chickenpox, polio and Covid 19.
- Diseases caused by parasites: scabies, malaria and intestinal worms.
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV and AIDS,
3 - Diseases caused by bacteria: symptoms, causes, prevention and control of whooping cough, diphtheria, typhoid, cholera and Tuberculosis.
- Diseases: plague, dengue, hepatitis.
- Common diseases of childhood: causes, symptoms, prevention and control of diarrhea, dysentery, common cold, jaundice.
4 - Preventive and social medicine: concept and meaning.
- Programmes for controlling communicable diseases and role of IEC (Information, Education and Communication)
- Health services in Haryana and India.
- Maternal and child health services.
- National Health Policy, NRHM.
- Primary Health Care: organization and functions.
- Role of medical social worker.
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