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Community Medicine
Elfatih Mohamed Malik (MBBS, MD)
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Khartoum
Chikungunya
Iceberg phenomena
Pakistani FETP graduates (Dr. Furgan, and Dr. Muhammad Bilal Khan) obtaining a
sample of water from a water pump suspected as the water source responsible for
causing diarrhea among children (Murree district , Punjab province, Pakistan, 2013)
A frontal view of an adult bedbug, Cimex lectularius, as it was
in the process of ingesting a blood meal from the arm of a
voluntary human host
(CDC/ Harvard University, Dr. Gary Alpert, Urban Pests - Integrated Pest Management (IPM); Dr.
Harold Harlan; Richard Pollack)
An image, captured by CDC
Epidemiologist, Patricia
Bessler, depicts CDC Ebola
Response Infection
Prevention and Control (IPC)
team member Esra Toussaint
(RT) advising clinic staff on
proper IPC procedures, in an
urban clinic, in Freetown,
Sierra Leone, May 18, 2015.
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Malaria officer in S. Darfur challenging the challenge
Community Medicine Curriculum
• Community health
• Environmental and occupational health
• Epidemiology
• Biostatistics
• Primary health care
• Research methods
• Communicable and non-communicable diseases
• Rural residency
• … etc
First year
• Sem. 1: Community health ( 2 credit hours)
WHO 1948
Why health is a world-wide goal?
• Enjoying a state of health:
– Is a fundamental human right
– Is the essence of productive life
– Is the integral part of development
– Is central to the concept of quality of life
– Is world-wide social goal
Assessment
Policy development
Assurance
5 stars medical doctor
Care giver
Communicator
Community leader
Manager
Researcher