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Detail Information about UGC NET has published notification 2026 for the notification of Social Medicine & Community Health. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following Exam and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Exam with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.

UGC NET Syllabus 2026 - Highlights

Particulars	Details
Name of the Exam	UGC NET (University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test)
Conducting Authority	National Testing Agency (NTA)
Exam Level	National Level
Exam Frequency	Twice a year
Exam Mode	Online
Category	Syllabus and Exam Pattern
Language	Hindi and English
Purpose of the exam	Determine the eligibility of candidates for posts of only Assistant Professor or both Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Assistant Professor in Indian universities and colleges
Official Website	https://ntanet.nic.in

UGC NET Social Medicine & Community Health Syllabus 2026

Part I : Teaching/ research aptitude

Unit-I Teaching Aptitude

1. Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.

2. Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.

3. Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.

4. Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).

5. Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.

6. Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems.

Unit-II Research Aptitude

1. Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Postpositivistic approach to research.

2. Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.

3. Steps of Research.

4. Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.

5. Application of ICT in research.

6. Research ethics.

Unit-III Comprehension

A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.

Unit-IV Communication

1. Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.

2. Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication.

3. Barriers to effective communication.

4. Mass-Media and Society.

Unit-V Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

1. Types of reasoning.

2. Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.

3. Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.).

Unit-VI Logical Reasoning

1. Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition.

2. Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.

3. Analogies.

4. Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments.

5. Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.

6. Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).

7. Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).

Unit-VII Data Interpretation

1. Sources, acquisition and classification of Data.

2. Quantitative and Qualitative Data.

3. Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart and Line-chart) and mapping of Data.

4. Data Interpretation.

5. Data and Governance.

Unit-VIII Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

1. ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.

2. Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.

3. Digital initiatives in higher education.

4. ICT and Governance.

Unit-IX People, Development and Environment

1. Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.

2. Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment.

3. Environmental issues: Local, Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its Socio-Economic and Political dimensions.

4. Impacts of pollutants on human health.

5. Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests.

6. Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies.

7. Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance.

Unit-X Higher Education System

1. Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.

2. Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India.

3. Oriental, Conventional and Non-conventional learning programmes in India.

4. Professional, Technical and Skill Based education.

5. Value education and environmental education.

6. Policies, Governance, and Administration.

Part II : Domain knowledge (Social Medicine & Community Health)

Unit-I Evolution and Basic Concepts of Public Health/ Social Medicine and Community Health

1. History of Social Medicine and Community Health
2. History of Public Health and Its Milestones
3. Comprehensive Health Care
4. Social Development and Health
5. Dimensions and Determinants of Health
6. Concepts and Indicators of Health and Wellbeing
7. Natural History of Disease
8. Levels of Prevention
9. Globalisation and Its Impact on Health
10. Roles and Responsibility of State, Community and Private Sector in Health

Unit-II Evolution of Health Policies and Health Services in India

1. Health Committees and Development of Health Services in Independent India
2. Constitutional Provisions, Federal Structure and Social Security
3. National Health Policies (1983, 2002, 2017), Population Policy, Nutrition Policy
4. Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy, 2002
5. Important Health Legislations in India
6. Health Infrastructure in India—Public, Private, and Charitable, Public Private Partnership(PPP)
7. Health financing and Health insurance, Out of Pocket expenditure
8. Civil society and Social Movements in Health

Unit-III General Epidemiology and Bio-statistics

1. Basic concepts and definitions in Epidemiology
2. Types of epidemiology
3. Uses of epidemiology
4. Measurements in epidemiology
5. Epidemiological Study Designs
6. Screening and surveillance
7. Validity of Screening and Diagnostic tests
8. Causation , Association and Biases
9. Investigation of an epidemic
10. Basic concepts in Bio statistics
11. Types of data and data sources for Public Health
12. Sampling techniques and sample size estimation
13. Probability and Tests of significance
14. Data analysis, presentation and interpretation

Unit-IV Social Sciences and Health

1. Definition, Scope, Concepts and Significance of Social, Economic, Cultural and Behavioral factors on Health and Disease
2. Social Theories of Causation of Disease
3 Implications of Social Structure and Socio-economic Status for Health
4. Political and Economic Aspects of Health
5. Health Perceptions and Behavior
6. Health Economics
7. Qualitative Research Methodology
8. Social Work Approach in Health Care

Unit-V Epidemiology of Common Health Problems In India and National Health Programmes

1. Communicable Diseases—Common, Emerging and Re-emerging diseases, Hospital acquired infections, Antimicrobial resistance
2. Non-Communicable Diseases—Cardio-vascular diseases, Diabetes, Cancers, Rheumatic heart disease, Blindness, Mental Health, Occupational Diseases, Genetic diseases
3. Accidents , Injuries and Disasters
4. All National Health Programs and data sources.

Unit-VI Basic Determinants of Health

a. Environment and Health

1. Water and sanitation
2. Environmental pollution and Health impacts
3. Built environment and Housing
4. Climate change and impact on health
5. Waste management
6. Hospital waste management

b. Nutrition

1. Ecology of malnutrition
2. Assessment of Nutritional status
3. Nutritional diseases and their management
4. Food and nutrition security and related legislations
5. National Nutrition programs
6. Socio cultural aspects of nutrition
7. Food safety, Food standards and related legislations

c. Social determinants of Health

Unit-VII Demography, Family Welfare and RCH :

a. Demography and Family Planning

1. Definition, concepts and indicators related to demography and family planning
2. Demographic cycle
3. Size, composition and distribution of India’s population
4. Approaches and methods of contraception
5. Evolution of National Family Welfare Program
6. Social issues related to Family Planning
7. Felt need and unmet need in Family planning
8. Social marketing in family planning
9. Counseling in Family planning
10. PC and PNDT Act-1994
11. MTP Act 1971

b. Reproductive and Child Health

1. Evolution of Maternal/ Reproductive and child Health programs
2. Safe motherhood and essential newborn care with related schemes and programs
3. Gender issues in women’s health
4. Major health problems of children in India and related National Health Programs
5. Adolescent health and related schemes and programs
6. Rights of child and related schemes and Programs
7. School Health Programme

Unit-VIII Health Education/ IEC/ BCC and Information Technology in Health :

1. Concepts, objectives and approaches of health education
2. Methods , modes and barriers of communication
3. Planning, Management and Organization of health education programs
4. E-medicine, Distance education and associated legal issues
5. Role of media in Health Education
6. E Health and m Health

Unit-IX Health Systems Research, Planning and Management and Recent Advances in Public Health :

1. Health planning and management
2. Health systems research- Operations Research, System analysis, Health Technology assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation
3. Health Management Information System
4. Medical and Social Audits
5. Health teams and their management
6. Human Resources in Health
7. Role of Ayush in local Health traditions
8. Health policy studies
9. Quality assessment of Health Services- parameters and standards
10. Ethics in Health Care
11. National Institutes of Public Health Research and Training

Unit-X International Health :

1. Health problems of developed and developing countries
2. Health problems of South East Asia region
3. International agencies in Health
4. Emporiatrics
5. Health for All approaches- Primary Health Care (1978) to Universal Health Coverage
6. Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

UGC NET Social Medicine & Community Health Exam Pattern 2026

Duration : 03 hours (180 minutes)

Part	Subject	No. of Question	Marks
Part I	Teaching/ research aptitude of the candidate. It will primarily be designed to test reasoning ability, reading comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness	50	100
Part II	Domain knowledge (Social Medicine & Community Health )	100	200
	Total	150	300

UGC NET Exam Date 2026 : 22nd to 30th June 2026

Starting Date of Application Form : 29th April 2026

Last Date of Application Form : 23rd May 2026

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