Textbook of Community Medicine by Rajvir Bhalwar

• The book seeks to encourage students to approach the subject with scientific logic and apply the learned concepts appropriately in the future during his/her professional career.
• Critical concepts and definitions have been explained at length in a simple and easy-to-understand language.
• Comprehensive coverage of the entire curriculum, including CBME-2019, through 130 chapters.
• Liberal use is made of appropriate examples and diagrams to explain various concepts of community medicine.
• Equal emphasis is laid on the aspects helping in applying the basic concepts & in answering application & problem-based questions for all the examinations across the country including NEET-PG.
• Latest statistics pertaining to India on various policies, programs, guidelines, and surveys are provided.
• All communicable and non-communicable diseases are discussed in the Indian scenario with latest data.
• MCQs which comprehensively cover the text have been added at the end of each chapter to allow students to test their grasp of topics dealt within each chapter
• Contributed immensely by adding new chapters on the following topics mentioned below.
• Corona Virus-19, Newly Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases, Healthcare Acquired / Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), and Pandemic Management.
• Also covers Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Computers in Epidemiology and Digital Health (E-Health), Tribal Health and Emergency and Critical Care Services in Primary Health Care etc.

About the author- Rajiv Bhalwar

He graduated from King George’s Medical College and obtained MD and PhD in Community Medicine (PSM) from AFMC (Pune University), besides undergoing 2-years’ Post-Doctoral Fellowship Training in Clinical Epidemiology under INCLEN Program. Presently, he is the Principal & Dean, Padma Bhushan Dr. Balasaheb Vikhe Patil Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed University), Maharashtra.