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Preventive and Social Medicine

Community Activities

Naigaon Health Centre:-

In order to carry out teaching and training of undergraduate medical students, interns and residents doing Diploma/MD (Community Medicine) in community work, a health centre has been established by PSM Department in Naigaum area which is about 1 k.m. from the parent institute. Through Naigaum Health Centre, comprenhensive health services like Under five clinic, Medical relief, IEC activities etc. are conducted for training medical students.

Malvani Health Centre (Malad West) :

An Urban Health has been established by PSM Department at Malvani to offer comprehensive health care services to about 1.1 lakh poor and needy people living in slum/slum like areas. The centre is located about 34 kms from the parent institute. In addition to providing health services to slum population, the Urban Health Centre also provides practical training to interns, post graduate students (Diploma/MD in PSM), student nurses from L.T. College of Nursing, Bhagwati Hospital,Cooper Hospital etc. Various research project related to community health are also undertaken at the UHC, Malvani population.

Following activities are carried out at M.H.C:

  1. Antenatal Clinic
  2. Postnatal Clinic
  3. Family Planning Services
  4. Underfive Clinic services
  5. Immunisation clinic
  6. School Health services
  7. Gynaec. Services
  8. TB clinic
  9. Leprosy clinic
  10. Dental & Opthalmic clinic etc.

Child to child programme was developed at MHC and is accepted as one of the effective methods of health education internationally.

Research Projects & Training Programme:

Department of PSM is involved in conducting following research projects:

  1. Endline Impact Evaluation of India Population Project funded by WorldBank.
  2. Epidemiological study of Preventable cancers in a community.
  3. Community based interventions for control of Rheumatic heart disease.
  4. Sexual behviours of unmarried adolescents in a community.

Training Programmes or Courses:
  1. Department is involved in AIDS training programmes.
  2. Department has established an Epidemiology and Public health initiative (EPHI) which conducts a course in an advanced epidemiology for a period of 1 year.
  3. 2 days workshops on "Research Methodology".