Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease caused by bacterium Vibrio cholerae . Cases range from symptomless to severe infections. The majority of infections are mild or asy…

The goals of medicine are to promote health, to preserve health, to restore health when it is impaired, and to minimize suffering and distress. These goals are embodies …

Semmelweis demonstrated the value of handwashing with antiseptic solutions, when he obtained considerable reduction in the death rate from puerperal fever. Lister was al…

Government of India launched the Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) on 1st June 2011, a new national initiative, to make available better health facilities for wome…

Reproductive and child health approach has been defined as " people have the ability to reproduce and regulate their fertility, women are able to go through pregnan…

Currently, the most important scheme in the field of child welfare is the  Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) . The blue print for the scheme was prepared by t…

In addition to the Five Year Plans and Programmes, in 1975, the Government of India initiated a special activity. This was the 20-Point Programme, described as an agenda…

The Minimum Needs Programme (MNP) was introduced in the first year of the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974-78) . The objective of the programme is to provide certain basic min…

A new approach to health care came into existence in 1978 following an international conference at Alma-Ata . This is known as "primary health care" . It has a…

Definition of Family Planning WHO defined family planning a way of thinking and living that is adopted voluntarily, upon the basis of knowledge, attitudes and responsibl…

Hormonal contraceptives when properly used are the most effective spacing methods of contraception. Oral contraceptives of the combined type are almost 100 percent effe…

A Vaccine Vial Monitor (VVM) is a label containing a heat-sensitive material which is placed on a vaccine vial to register cumulative heat exposure over time. The VVM …