Discover Mnemonics of Public Health / Community Medicine by Dr. Sarah Tanvir, a revision companion that compresses community medicine into memory aids you can hold onto in a viva.
The book works through the core of epidemiology: criteria for judging causality, the classification of epidemiological studies, case-control and cohort designs and the differences between them, randomised controlled trials, generation time, secondary attack rate, herd immunity, secular trends and migration studies.
Each topic is reduced to a mnemonic and a short explanation — the four steps of a case-control study as SAM², the full sequence for investigating an epidemic from verifying the diagnosis through to further investigation of the population at risk. Determinants, dimensions and indicators of health, and primary health care are covered in the same way, with sources referenced throughout.
Written specifically for viva reading of selected topics, this is a fast, practical refresher for medical students and public health trainees.
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