Social and Preventive Pharmacy B. Pharma 8th Semester Notes Pdf

Scope: The purpose of Social and Preventive Pharmacy is to introduce to students several health issues and their challenges. This course also introduced several national health programs. The roles of the pharmacist in these contexts are also discussed.

Objectives: After the successful completion of this course, the student shall be able to:

Acquire high consciousness/realization of current issues related to health and pharmaceutical problems within the country and worldwide.

Have a critical way of thinking based on current healthcare development.

Evaluate alternative ways of solving problems related to health and pharmaceutical issues

Course content:

Social and Preventive Pharmacy Unit I:

Concept of health and disease: Definition, concepts and evaluation of public health. Understanding the concept of prevention and control of disease, social causes of diseases, and social problems of the sick.

Social and health education: Food about nutrition and health, Balanced diet, Nutritional deficiencies, Vitamin deficiencies, Malnutrition, and its prevention.

Sociology and health: Socio-cultural factors related to health and disease, Impact of urbanization on health and disease, Poverty and health

Hygiene and health: personal hygiene and health care; avoidable habits

Social and Preventive Pharmacy Unit II:

Preventive medicine: General principles of prevention and control of diseases such as cholera, SARS, Ebola virus, influenza, acute respiratory infections, malaria, chicken guinea, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, pneumonia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cancer, drug addiction-drug substance abuse

Social and Preventive Pharmacy Unit III:

National health programs, their objectives, functioning and outcome of the following: HIV AND AIDS control program, TB, Integrated disease surveillance program (IDSP), National leprosy control programme, National mental health program, National programme for prevention and control of deafness, Universal immunization programme, National programme for control of blindness, Pulse polio program.

Social and Preventive Pharmacy Unit IV:

National health intervention program for mother and child, National family welfare program, National tobacco control program, National Malaria Prevention Program, National program for the health care for the elderly, Social health program; role of WHO in Indian national program

Social and Preventive Pharmacy Unit V:

Community services in rural, urban and school health: Functions of PHC, Improvement in rural sanitation, national urban health mission, Health promotion and education in school.

Social and Preventive Pharmacy Recommended Books (Latest edition):

1. Short Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, Prabhakara GN, 2nd Edition, 2010, ISBN: 9789380704104, JAYPEE Publications

2. Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine (Mahajan and Gupta), Edited by Ro y Rabindra Nath, Saha Indranil, 4th Edition, 2013, ISBN: 9789350901878, JAYPEE Publications

3. Review of Preventive and Social Medicine (Including Biostatistics), Jain Vivek, 6^thEdition, 2014, ISBN: 9789351522331, JAYPEE Publications

4. Essentials of Community Medicine—A Practical Approach, Hiremath Lalita D, Hiremath Dhananjaya A, 2nd Edition, 2012, ISBN: 9789350250440, JAYPEE Publications

5. Park Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, K Park, 21st Edition, 2011, ISBN-14: 9788190128285, BANARSIDAS BHANOT PUBLISHERS.

6. Community Pharmacy Practice, Ramesh Adepu, BSP publishers, Hyderabad