Community Health Nursing

What is Chaddha Committe? In the mid 20th century India was struggling with the spread of communicable and infectious diseases. The main disease i.e. malaria is spreading rapidly in India. It has become a major burden on Indias health care system. To deal with the malaria, India launches National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP). This program … Read more

Descriptive epidemiology is branch of public health. It collect all the data regarding any disease condition. This data is primarily present in the form of Time, place and person. That is why this is called as descriptive study, it describes disease in Time, place and person. So, basically it is form of data collection method … Read more

Mudaliar committee is also called as health survey and planning committee. This committe was formed to check and assess the health infrastructure and developmet made since from the recommendations of Bhore Committe. Mudaliar committe has given aim to assess the health care delivery system and suggest future plans to improve health system in India. It … Read more

Epidemiology, term as epi means above, demo means people and logy means study. It is simple meaning as study upon or among the people. In, epidemiology, one studied the health related states of their distribution (means to who, where and when it occur) and determinants in the specific population. This study will help us to … Read more

Leprosy is also called as Hansens’s disease. It is caused by Mycobacterium leprae. This bacteria develops very slowly as incubation period (time to appear first symptom) is more than 3 to 5 years. The symptoms will take time up to 20 years to completely occur. This disease is curable, but needs early diagnosis and proper … Read more