> Learning Objectives for the Posting to DHO office
Students are expected to learn :
Health Infrastructure
- Structure and function of various levels of health care
- Number of health facilities
- Health Personnel and their responsibilities
- Budget allocation
Family health: MCH, Nutrition.
- Scope of family health
- Factors affecting family health
- Family health acts
- Family health programmes by the MOH
- Indicators used for evaluation
- Maternal health services
- Elderly and child health services
- Nutritional assessment skills
- Job responsibilities and infrastructure
Disease control: CDC & NCDC
- Disease surveillance systems including Computerized systems
- Vaccines and immunization
- Programmes by MOH
- Notification methods
- Control programmes
- Job responsibilities and infrastructure
- Strategies for Epidemic investigation
Food quality control: Food sampling, Premise inspection, Issuance of cert. for food export, Enforcement.
- Local laws and regulations
- Basis and methods of premise regulation
- Methods of sample collection
- Job responsibilities and infrastructure.
BAKAS , Safe water supply, Sanitation, Solid waste, Drainage.
- Methods of safe water supply
- Disposal of waste
- Sampling of water
- Excreta and sewage treatment
- Waste management
- Job responsibilities and infrastructure
- Water Quality Monitoring
Vector borne disease : Dengue, Filariasis and malaria
- Vector control programmes structure, functions and job responsibilities
- Vector Control measures
- Laws on vector control
KPAS : Environmental, Occupational health
- Basic occupational health
- Environmental health services in Mal.
- Job responsibilities of the DHO
Emergency preparedness
- Preparedness for various types of emergencies including disease outbreaks
- Contingency plans
- Personnel involved
- Training for preparedness
- Budget allocation
Training programmes
- Types of training programmes
- Personnel involved in training
- requency of training
- Note: The group of students posted to an office can be further subdivided and posted to various sections according to the convenience of the DHO and other health personnel.
- The students will interact with the health personnel and elicit information on:
- Their training
- Job responsibilities
- Responsibilities with reference to the areas listed above
- Methods of interacting with the community for the above activity
- Planning and scheduling
- Records maintained
- Reports generated and dispatched
- Response to feed back from higher authorities.
- As far as feasible the students shall observe the activities both in the office and in the field.
