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High-Yield PSM Topics for UPSC CMS 2025 – Expert Guide by Team M3 Academy 🩺

Thu Apr 10, 2025

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Team M3 Academy brings you the most accurate and exam-relevant PSM preparation guide for UPSC CMS 2025. Our Premium Package is crafted from 20+ years of PYQ analysis and includes one-liner facts, high-yield charts, numericals & mnemonics. Here's your smart topic-wise blueprint for acing PSM. 💡

1. Epidemiology & Biostatistics 📊

  • Health indicators: PQLI, HDI
  • Disease concepts & risk factors
  • Levels of Prevention: Primordial to Tertiary
  • Key metrics: Incidence, Prevalence, Crude/Specific Death Rates
  • Study designs: Case-Control, Cohort, RCT
  • Numericals: Odds Ratio (OR), Relative Risk (RR), Attributable Risk (AR)
  • Screening tests: Sensitivity, Specificity, Predictive Values
  • Standardization: Direct, Indirect, SMR

2. Communicable Diseases 🦠
  • Infections: Measles, Rubella, Mumps, Influenza, COVID
  • Tuberculosis & BCG vaccine insights
  • Hepatitis A–B–C: Clinical & serology clues
  • Vector diseases: Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya
  • Rabies PEP: Dose, site, vaccine types
  • Other key infections: Typhoid, Yellow Fever, JE, Kala-azar, Tetanus, Leprosy

3. Immunization 💉
  • Live vs killed vaccine comparison
  • Human adjuvants & passive immunization
  • Cold chain: ILR, Vaccine carriers
  • AEFI, vaccine contraindications
  • National Immunization Schedule (birth to adolescence)

4. Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) ❤️
  • Risk factors: CHD, Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes
  • Screening for cancers & causes of blindness
  • Snake bite: Emergency management protocols

5. Nutrition 🥗
  • Macronutrients: Proteins, Fats, Fiber
  • Vitamins A–K: Dose, deficiency, toxicity
  • Essential minerals: Iron, Calcium, Zinc, Iodine
  • Nutritional values of Indian foods
  • Conditions: Malnutrition, PEM, IDD, Fluorosis
  • Milk hygiene & food safety tips

6. Maternal & Child Health (MCH) 👩‍🍼
  • Antenatal, Intranatal, Postnatal care
  • Key MCH indicators
  • Programs: ICDS, JSY, JSSK, RCH, ASHA, SBA
  • Initiatives: Anemia Mukt Bharat, IMNCI, Breastfeeding

7. National Health Programs 🏥
  • Major initiatives: Malaria, AIDS, Filaria, Vision 2020
  • Universal Immunization Program (UIP)
  • Highlights of National Health Policy 2017
  • Family Welfare & child protection schemes

8. Environmental & Occupational Health 🌱
  • Water purification, chlorination steps
  • Air pollution, housing standards
  • Solid waste & sewage disposal
  • Occupational hazards: Pneumoconiosis, Lead poisoning
  • Acts: Factory Act, ESI Act

9. Medical Entomology 🦟
  • Disease vectors: Mosquitoes, sandflies, ticks
  • Larvicides, insecticides
  • Vector control techniques

10. Biostatistics 📈
  • Diagrams, charts, normal distribution
  • Sampling methods
  • Statistical tests: Chi-square, t-test, Z-test
  • Correlation & regression

11. Health Planning & Communication 📢
  • Communication models
  • Role of ASHA, Primary Health Care
  • Health education & voluntary agencies

12. Demography 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
  • Demographic cycle, growth phases
  • Fertility indicators, Life expectancy
  • Family size, dependency ratio, contraceptive methods

13. Census & Vital Statistics 📜
  • Data systems: Census, SRS, CRS
  • Birth/death registration
  • Role of lay reporting

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Final Advice from Team M3 Academy 🧠

PSM is the easiest subject to score high — if you're smart with revision. Focus on one-liner facts, high-yield charts, indicators & numericals. Prioritize frequently asked schemes, programs, and vaccine schedules. With daily MCQ practice and targeted review using the M3 Academy Premium Package, you're already ahead in your UPSC CMS journey.


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