HEALTH SCIENCES- SYLLABUS

    

                           L.N.I.P.E 

              ( LAKSHMIBA NATIONAL                    INSTITUTE PHYSICAL EDUCATION )

NAAC A++ Accredited, Category -1 Deemed to be University & 12B Status Granted by the UGC 

(Member of the International association of Physical Culture & sports University ) 

Government of India , Ministry of Youth affairs and sports 

 

HEALTH SCIENCES

1.

HEALTH AND HEALTH EDUCATION :

Health, Public Health, Ecology of Health, Indicators of Health, Approaches,

Objectives, Contents and Principles of Health Education, Communication Process in

Health Education, Concept of Genetics, Chromosomal Abnormalities, Chromosomal

Disorders, Factors which influence gene Frequencies, Preventive and Social

Measures.

2.

HEALTH AND HYGIENE :

Meaning and Importance of Hygiene, Environmental Hygiene, Personal Hygiene,

Mental Hygiene, its nature and function, Hygiene and Health, Drugs, Anabolic

steroids (Types and their effect), Tobacco, Physiological effect of Tobacco, Smoking

and Disease, Quitting Smoking, Alcohol, Effects of Alcohol behavior, Long term

effects of Alcohol.

3.

HEALTH AND NUTRITION :

Food, Nutrient, Nutrition, Classification of Foods, Fast Food and its effects, Functions

of Foods, Dietary guideline for eating right food, Sources, Functions and Requirement

of Protein, Fat Carbohydrate, Vitamins and Minerals. Nutritional Diseases, Meaning

and Importance of Balance Diet, Components of Balance Diet, Factors to be kept in

mind for preparing Balance Diet Chart, Balance Diet Chart for Sedentary and

Sportsman, Assessment of Nutritional Status, Food Hygiene and Food Safety, Food

Additives, Food Adulteration, Mal–Nutrition Food Adulteration Act.

4.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS :

Concept and Health and Wellness, Models of Health, Dimensions of Health Wellness,

Making Healthy Changes, Relative Concept of Wellbeing, Definition of Stress and

Emotion, Causes of Stress, Management of Stress, Understanding Thoughts of

Emotion Depression, Anger and Mental Disorders, Developing coping strategies,

What is Physical Activity, Physiological and Health Benefits of Physical Activity,

Fitness and Conditioning, Exercise abuse, Meaning of Health Care and its

Characteristics, Being a wise Health Care Consumer, Health Care Issue Today.

5.

HEALTH AND DISEASE :

Concept and Causation of Disease, Natural History of Disease, Concepts of Control of

Disease, Concepts of Prevention, Modes of Intervention, Definition of Epidemiology

and its aims, Epidemiological Approval of Disease, Basic Measures of Epidemiology,

Epidemiological Methods, Analytical Epidemiology, Respiratory Infection –

Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Intestinal Infection – Cholera, Typhoid, Arthropod Borne

Infection – Malaria, Dengue, Surface Infection – AIDS, Leprosy, Zoo noses - Rabies,

Plague, Coronary Heart Diseases, Rheumatic Heart Disease, their Causes and

Prevention, Hypertension and stroke their Causes and Prevention, Cancer – Causes

and Control, Diabetes Causes of Prevention, Obesity – Cause of Prevention. 

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT:

Safe Water and its Requirement, Uses of and sources of Water, Purification of Water,

Water Quality – Criteria and Standards, Special Treatment of Water, Components of

Air, Indices of Thermal Comfort and Comfort Zones, Air Pollution Sources and

Monitoring of Air Pollution, Health Effect of Air Pollution and Prevention of Control

of Air Pollution, Meaning and Properties of Noise, Effect of Noise Exposure &

Control of Noise, Requirement of Goods Light and Natural Light, Artificial Lighting

and its Methods, Biological effect of Light, Sources and types of Radiation,

Biological effect and Control of Radiation, Social goal of Housing and Criteria for

Healthful Housing, Housing Standards and Housing and Health, Refuse – Sources and

methods of Disposal, Excreta – Public Health Importance, how disease is carried from

Excreta, Methods of Excreta Disposal, Sewage – Meaning and Health aspect, Modern

sewage treatment.

7.

HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHY :

Meaning of Demography and its Cycles, Process in Demography, Fertility – Factors,

Birth and Death rate, National Population Policy, Definition and its Scope of family

planning, Health Aspects of Family Planning, Contraceptive Spacing Method and

Terminal Methods, Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, Evaluation of Family

Planning, Meaning and its objectives, Basic Elements of RCH, RCH Inventions,

Maternal and Child Health Programme, Child Survival, Sexuality Dimensions, Major

Health Habits in Pregnancy, Benefits of Breastfeeding.

8.

HEALTH PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT :

Meaning and objectives of Health Planning, Planning Cycle, Management Methods

and Techniques of Health Planning, National Health Policy, Health Planning in India,

Health System at the National Level, Health System at the State Level, Health System

at the District Level, Integrated Rural Development Programme, Evaluation of Health

Services, W.H.O. its Objectives Structure and Work, UNICEF, ILO, UNDP, FAO,

Indian Red-cross Society, Indian Council of Child Welfare, International Red-cross,

CARE, Meaning and Objectives Disaster Management, Classification of Disaster,

Challenges in Disaster Management, Phases of Disaster, Common Natural Disaster in

India and their Management.