History of Community Medicine

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IMPORTANT FOR NEET & DNB

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 John Snow
• Father of Modern
Epidemiology
• Cholera : Mode Of
Transmission
• “Shoe leather
epidemiology”: house to
house survey
• Diagram: Spot map study
• Study Design: Natural
experiment
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 Edward Jenner
• Small Pox vaccine (1st
vaccine)
• Term vaccination
• Term vaccine: Louis
Pasteur
• BOTH ARE 7 LETTER
WORDS
• Louis Pasteur:
– C: Chicken pox
– A: Anthrax
– R: Rabies 3
 Albert Bruce Sabin
• OPV
• JE vaccine

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 Robert Koch
• Koch’s postulates
• TB bacillus
• Detail in Microbiology

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 Hansen
• Discovery of the
Mycobacterium leprae
• First identification of
bacteria as the
causative agent of a
human disease

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 James Lind
• Scurvy Trial (Citrus fruits
prevent scurvy)
• 1st ever clinical trial

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 Charles Alphonso Laveran
• Nobel prize
• Cause of malaria is a 
protozoan (discovered
malaria parasite)
• First time that protozoa
were shown to be a
cause of disease

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 Ronald Ross
• Ronald Ross- Life cycle of plasmodium within
anopheles
• Noble Prize

• NOBLE PRIZE:
• MOSQUITO – ROSS
• HUMANS - LOVERUN

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 Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
• Puerperial Sepsis
• Hand Washing

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Joseph William Bhore:
Bhore Committee

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 Edwin Chadwick
• Enactment of public health act, 1848 in London

• 1st ever act to deal with sanitation

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 Chinese Medicine
• Pioneer of immunization

• Bare foot doctors

• Acupuncture

• 1st organized system of medicine

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 Some Important Theories
Theory Scientist
Germ theory Louis Pasteur
Multi factorial causation Pettenkoffer
Spontaneous generation Aristotle
Growth chart David Morley
First true epidemiologist Hippocrates
Population growth Malthus

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 Important Fathers in Medical History
Father of ______ Scientist
Medicine Hippocrates
Indian Medicine Charaka
Modern Surgery Ambroise Pare
Hindu God of Medicine Dhanvantri
Indian Surgery Sushruta (Susruta Samhiti)
Bacteriology Louis Pasteur
Epidemiology John Snow
Genetics Gregor Mendel
Homeopathy Samuel Hahneman
Health statistics John Graunt
EBM (evidence based medicine) D Sackett
Nutrition Antonie Lavoisier

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 First countries
Concept Country
Compulsory sickness insurance Germany
Start family planning programme India
Start blindness control programme
Launch the reduced osmolarity ORS
Pasteurization; Germ Theory France
Socialized Medicine Russia

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 Location of important Institutes
Institute Location
National Institute of Occupational Health Ahmedabad
National Tuberculosis institute Bangalore
Tuberculosis Research Centre Chennai
National Environment Engineering Research Institute Nagpur
Central Drug Research Institute Lucknow
National Institute of virology Pune
Central Research Institute Kasauli
National Institute of Nutrition Hyderabad
National Disaster Authority New Delhi
National Institute of Communicable Diseases New Delhi
All India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health Kolkata`
National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases Kolkata
Indian Veterinary Institute Bareilly
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 Ministries related to public health
Scheme Ministry
RSBY MOHFW
All national programmes in PSM
FSSAI
Bioterrorism
MGNREGA Ministry of Labour & Employment
ESI
ICDS Women & Child Development
IGMSY
SABLA
Nirbhaya fund
BBBP (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao)
Ujjawala
Ministries Related to Public Health
Mid day meal program Ministry of Education/ HRD
Bio medical waste Ministry of Environment, Forests
management and Climate Change
Borstals State Inspector General of Prisons
Production of iodised salt Ministry of industry
Disaster Management, Home Ministry
census
Thank You

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