What is health education?

What occupational hazards in your fathers (or other family members

)workplace? What kind of hazards they belong to ?

What are the key components of a community?

What can we do as a community physician to protect, maintain and promote

the health of people in a given community?
What are behavioral sciences?
Why should we learn behavioral sciences in the course of community
medicine?
How to use behavioral sciences to understand and improve the health of
community?
What are the different variations in health educations?
IMB model
What are the steps of adoptions of new health education ideas?
What are the steps to define a social objectives?

What are the specific objectives of health education?

What Measures you can proposed for promoting occupational health?
Occupational health
Types of occupational hazards
You are an occupational physician.
A 31-year-old laboratory technician is referred to your clinic by her
manager, because of alleged lateness and poor performance at work. You are
asked to assess whether there is an underlying medical cause for this.
She tells you that she has not been sleeping well lately, possibly due to
nocturnal coughing. She says the lab is cold and drafty, and that by the end
of the working day her right arm is aching. She says that when she told her
manager, he was unsympathetic; telling her she should leave if she doesnt
like the job.
1.What are the presenting medical problems?
2. What are the possible work-related causes of her symptoms?
3. What are the potential hazards in her workplace and how might you classify
them?
4. How will you respond to the managers questions?

A 58-year-old hospital porter has been off sick for almost a year, with low
back pain. He says he injured his back at work. His back pain has not
improved with physiotherapy and analgesia. He has difficulty walking up and
down stairs and is breathless on exertion.
1. What his occupational history you should learn about?

2. What occupational hazards might account for his breathlessness?

3. How would you assess whether his symptoms are work related or not?
4. What advice would you give him?
5. Is he likely to be return to work?
Content of BOHS
What are national health programs?
Why do we need national/global health programs?
Why do we have national health programs?
Why do we need to learn about national health programs?
Examples of national health programs
Describe The five elements of administration
What is PHC?
COST, GDP,GNP
What are the other concepts related to costs?
What is health economy?