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SOCIAL PHARMACY
ER20-15T
CHAPTER -01
Introduction to Social Pharmacy
- Definition and Scope. Social Pharmacy as a discipline and its scope in improving the public health. Role of Pharmacists in Public (2)
- Concept of Health -WHO Definition, various dimensions, determinants, and health (3)
- National Health Policy – Indian perspective (1)
- Public and Private Health System in India, National Health Mission (2)
- Introduction to Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, FIP Development Goals (1)
CHAPTER -02
Preventive healthcare – Role of Pharmacists in the following
- Demography and Family Planning (3)
- Mother and child health, importance of breastfeeding, ill effects of infant milk substitutes and bottle feeding (2)
- Overview of Vaccines, types of immunity and immunization (4)
- Effect of Environment on Health – Water pollution, importance of safe drinking water, waterborne diseases, air pollution, noise pollution, sewage and solid waste disposal, occupational illnesses, Environmental pollution due to pharmaceuticals (7)
- Psychosocial Pharmacy: Drugs of misuse and abuse – psychotropics, narcotics, alcohol, tobacco Social Impact of these habits on social health and
CHAPTER -03
Nutrition and Health
- Basics of nutrition – Macronutrients and Micronutrients (3)
- Importance of water and fibres in diet (1)
- Balanced diet, Malnutrition, nutrition deficiency diseases, ill effects of junk foods, calorific and nutritive values of various foods, fortification of food (3)
- Introduction to food safety, adulteration of foods, effects of artificial ripening, use of pesticides, genetically modified foods (1)
- Dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, food supplements
- indications, benefits, Drug-Food Interactions (2)
CHAPTER -04
Introduction to Microbiology and common microorganisms (3)
Epidemiology: Introduction to epidemiology, and its applications. Understanding of terms such as epidemic, pandemic, endemic, mode of transmission, outbreak, quarantine, isolation, incubation period, contact tracing, morbidity, mortality, . (2)
Causative agents, epidemiology and clinical presentations and Role of Pharmacists in educating the public in prevention of the following communicable diseases:
- Respiratory infections – chickenpox, measles, rubella, mumps, influenza (including Avian-Flu, H1N1, SARS, MERS, COVID-19), diphtheria, whooping cough, meningococcal meningitis, acute respiratory infections, tuberculosis, Ebola (7)
- Intestinal infections – poliomyelitis, viral hepatitis, cholera, acute diarrheal diseases, typhoid, amebiasis, worm infestations, food poisoning (7)
- Arthropod-borne infections – dengue, malaria, filariasis and, chikungunya (4)
- Surface infections – trachoma, tetanus, leprosy (2)
- STDs, HIV/AIDS (3)
CHAPTER -05
- Introduction to health systems and all ongoing National Health programs in India, their objectives, functioning, outcome, and the role of pharmacists.
CHAPTER -06
- Pharmacoeconomics – Introduction, basic terminologies, importance of pharmacoeconomics