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AshB · Credits: 41463 My Scrapbook My Reading List 6 Books

Some data from the latest edition of Park (18th ed) to help guys who don't have access to it. I've also seen d link -

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which u can refer for confirmation.

I'm putting data randomly (i dunno which of them have changed from last edition) Please add or ask for d data i miss, ok.. Hope it helps..

Total population - 1049 million (2002)
Crude birth rate - 25 (2002)
Crude death rate - 8.1 (2002)
Total fertility rate - 3.1 (2002)
CPR - 46.2% (2002) (52 is also given but mohfw says 46.2)
IMR - 63 (2003)
Neonatal mortality - 45 (1999)
Child mortality rate - 19.5 (2000)
MMR - 407 (1998)
U-5 mortality - 93 (2002)
Infants fully immunized - 56% (2002)

AshB · Credits: 41463 My Scrapbook My Reading List 6 Books

Also new in Park 18th...

MDG : Acronym for ‘Millennium Development Goals’, which were adopted by the United Nations millennium summit in September 2000 (see

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MDG covered eight key goals:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Improve maternal health
3. Achieve universal primary education
4. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
5. Promote gender equality and empower women
6. Ensure environmental sustainability.
7. Reduce child mortality
8. Develop a global partnership for development

AshB · Credits: 41463 My Scrapbook My Reading List 6 Books

more texts which i found changed in new ed..

* The govt of india has approved a National Vector Borne Diseases Control Program from 2003-04 by Inclusion o JE and dengue with other three ongoing programs (Malaria, Filaria, Kala azar)

*Prevalence of Leprosy - 2.3/10,000 (march 2004)

*API- 1.62 (2003). Target in 10th plan is API <1.3

*Eye donation fortnight - 25th Aug to 8th Sept

*In National Programme for Control of blindness, revised strategy is: To shift from the eye camp approach to a fixed facility surgical approach

*Acc to national survey on blindness (2001-02) estimated prevalence of blindness = 1.1%

* DOTS treatment success rate = 86 % (2002)

dr_neo · Credits: 15131 My Scrapbook

Cool collection Man...

very interesting and informative.

drani · Credits: 4316 My Scrapbook

thanx a lot ashb- hope to have atleast one question on this in aipg

wondergirl · Credits: 13237 My Scrapbook

hey asheesh..thanx for this man..

manpreet108 · Credits: 30662 My Scrapbook

thanks ash...

good to see people like u around ...

flower · Credits: 5874 My Scrapbook

great job!!

AshB · Credits: 41463 My Scrapbook My Reading List 6 Books

Hey thanks neo, ani, wondergirl, manpreet, flower for ur comments!

Actually its nothing in comparison to what u guys r doing here. I'm just a small contributor to this big ocean of RxPG. Will try to keep on posting useful info at times...

Staphylococcus · Credits: 5751 My Scrapbook My Reading List 1 Books

thanks Ash.... pls keep posting more facts n figures....

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