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Family and Community Medicine Branch |

The Department of Community Medicine was established in the academic year 2002 as the Department of Community Medicine. In 2014 it was re-named to become the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

The department main activities are: teaching medical students both under and postgraduates the principles and methods of epidemiology, medical statistics, basic epidemiology and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases. This is in addition to teaching of primary health care concepts and practical programs in Iraq. A course is also arranged to tackle problems of environmental and occupational health.

In addition to teaching, members of the department are actively involved in research and advisory work to other departments in the college of medicine and to the health authorities in Diyala.

The research activities cover a variety of health problems such as measurement of population health, identification of risk factors, evaluation of health services performance, and medical ethics conduct. The interest in health system research is growing and the department is active in research and development in coordination with health authorities in Diyala. The department conducted a series of household survey in different parts of Diyala and its suburbs. These surveys were designed to provide practical opportunities to both staff and medical students to apply community medicine and epidemiology concepts and techniques at population level. They also provide relevant data on socio-demographic, health, occupational and environmental conditions of the population, which all can be used to improve health and services delivery in targeted study areas.

Heads of the department since its establishment

Name Years

  1. Dr. Salwa Shalish Abdulwaheed-- 2002
  2. Dr. Nadhim Ghazal Noaman--2004

Teaching staff

  1. Professor Dr. Nadhim Ghazal Noaman
  2. Professor Dr. Shahab Ahmed Shakir
  3. Professor Dr. Salwa Shalish Abdulwahed

 

Third grade

 

Biostatistics

  1. Introduction and
  2. Data collection and Sampling methods
  3. Data presentation
  4. Measurement of central tendency
  5. Measurement of variability
  6. Range, variance
  7. Sd, coefficient of variation
  8. Probability , types
  9. Characteristics, N.D. curves
  10. Importance, test
  11. Chi-square test
  12. Correlation and regression

Nutrition

  1. Introduction and definition about nutrition
  2. Protein
  3. Vitamins
  4. Nutrition of pregnancy and lactating women
  5. Nutrition of hypertension
  6. Diabetes Mellitus
  7. Iron deficiency diseases
  8. Nutrition of anemia and heart failure
  9. Nutrition of renal failure
  10. Total energy requirement Nutrition
  11. assessment& Recommended dietary allowness

 

Fourth grade

Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

  1. General epidemiology
  2. Definitions, prevalence
  3. Incidence, measurement of
  4. Source of infections
  5. Term in communicable disease
  6. Study design
  7. Evaluation of screening
  8. Acute respiratory
  9. Whooping cough

 

Occupational and environmental medicine

  • Occupational Health
  1. Occupational health: definition, history and objectives
  2. Function of occupational health center
  3. Heat and cold
  4. Pressure
  5. Noise ,
  6. Vibration
  7. Radiation: ionizing and non ionizing radiation
  8. Chemical hazards :toxicology, body defense
  9. Heavy metals : Mercury,Lead
  10. Lung disease (asbestosis and pneumoconiosis), Lung disease (silicosis and byssinosis)
  11. Occupational skin diseases, Contact Dermatitis
  12. Occupational Accidents
  13. Biological hazards
  14. Psychosocial hazards
  15. Occupational Cancer
  16. Personal Protective Equipments

 

  • Environmental Health
  1. Environmental health: Definition, Biological, Physical and Social Environment
  2. Air pollution: Indoor and Outdoor pollution
  3. Soil pollution
  4. Global warming and Greenhouse effects
  5. Ozone depletion and UVR health effect
  6. Acid rain
  7. Water pollution
  8. Sewage disposal and treatment
  9. Waterborne diseases
  10. Radiation pollution
  11. Noise pollution
  12. Visual pollution

 

MCH and Child Health

  1. Primary health care part 1
  2. Primary health care part 2
  3. Primary health care part 3
  4. Maternal health care part
  5. Nutrition and pregnancy
  6. Family health
  7. Child health
  8. Neonatal health
  9. Measles eliminate and measles
  10. Neonatal tetanus eliminate
  11. Mather and child vaccines
  12. New vaccines
  13. RED. approaches
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