Diploma in Community Health Practice

Syllabus

• A candidate who has completed 6 months Certified Ward Technician Course from DMET affiliated Institute/University.

• Assess and monitor the health status and disease condition of individual patient.
• Diagnose and manage common illnesses in the community, especially all notifiable diseases, and communicable diseases.
• Provide emergency care for common medical problems and appropriate referrals.
• Integrated community management, case management of Malaria, ARI, Pneumonia, diarrhoea, ENT infections in under 5 children
• Participate and assist in the prevention and control of communicable diseases and proper execution of National health programmes
• Investigate disease outbreaks and their basic management and follow-up of public health problems in the village level
• Run a village-based rural laboratory and do basic laboratory investigations.
• Promote village and environmental Sanitation
• Run chronic illnesses or disease-specific programmes (non-communicable diseases) with the guidance of physicians
• Augmented antenatal care of pregnant women
• Conduct normal delivery in centre and home and able to refer appropriately in case of emergencies
• Provide home based care (HBNC), and Sick new born care in the health centres.
• Detection and run community-based therapeutic management of severe malnutrition of under-five children in the village, management of complicated SAM in hospital under the guidance of doctors.
• Management of injuries
• Community based Geriatric care and mental health care.
• Build the capacity of the village health workers (ASHAs, Swasthya Sathis) and Anganwadi workers
• Organise and conduct adolescent health programme in the village and health education to them
• Conduct school health programme in village schools and promote health and nutrition practices in primary schools.
• To do social audit and monitoring in various social welfare programs

Be an effective social & behaviour change agent (As a counsellor, social mobiliser and community organiser)