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Syllabus FY BCA-SEM-I-EC-101 ( ELECTIVE COURSE )

HEALTH EDUCATION

Gujarat University FY BCA Sem - I New Syllabus (Revised) Effective from June, 2011

UNIT - I:

  • Concept of Health & Health education
  • Health Education – Aims, Principles, Contents and Methods.
  • Levels of Health Care in India, 3-Tier system of health care.
  • Positive health : Meaning & Spectrums
  • Role of Heredity & Environment

UNIT - II:

  • Nutrition:
  1. Proximate Principles
  2. Balance diet
  3. Malnutrition
  • Effects of Smoking, Drugs and Alcohol
  • School Health services & Programme
  1. Aspects
  2. Role of the P.E. Teacher, Principal and Doctor

UNIT - III:

  • Community & Environmental Health
  1. Pollution:- Its causes & effect on health
  2. Occupational Hazards
  3. Housing
  4. Population: - Policy, explosion, dynamics & family welfare Programme

UNIT - IV:

  • Epidemiology of Communicable Disease
  1. Small & Chicken Pox
  2. Tuberculosis
  3. Measles & Mumps
  4. Malaria, Dengue and Chickengunia
  5. Rabies, Jaundice & Yellow fever
  • Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Disease
  1. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
  2. Cancer
  3. Diabetes
  4. Hypertension
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

No. of Credits: 2
Theory Sessions per week: 2
Teaching Hours: 20 hours

Reference Books:
 
Park J.E., Park K. Text Book for preventive and social MedicineJabalpur :
Message Banarasidas Bhanet 1980 Edn.8
 

Reference Books:
 
Turner C.E. The School Health and health Education (st. Louis : TheC.V.
 
 

Reference Books:
 
Mosby Co. 1952) Edn. 2
 
 


Reference Books:
 
Bedi, Yashpal, Social and preventive Medicine (Delhi: Atamaram & Sons1983).
 
 


Reference Books:
 
Ghosh B.N. A Treaties of Hygiene and Public Health (Calcutta :Scientific Publication Co. 1952) Edn. 2
 
 

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