Social Pharmacy
Chapters | Topic Name |
Chapter -1 Introduction to Social Pharmacy | Scope and Definition. The discipline of Social Pharmacy |
Role of Pharmacists in Public Health | |
Concept of Health – Various Dimensions, Health Indicators, | |
WHO Definition and Determinants | |
Indian Perspective of National Health Policy | |
Private Health System in India, Public Health System, | |
National Health Mission | |
Introduction to Sustainable Development Goals, Millennium Development Goals and FIP Development Goals | |
Chapter -2 Preventive Healthcare – Role of Pharmacists | Family Planning and Demography |
Importance of Breastfeeding | |
Mother and child health | |
Bad effects of infant milk substitute bottle-feeding | |
Bad effects of bottle-feeding | |
Immunity | |
Overview of Vaccines | |
Pollution | |
Psychosocial Pharmacy | |
Chapter – 3 Nutrition and Health | Basics of Macronutrients and Micronutrients. |
Importance of fibre and water in the diet. | |
A balanced diet | |
Nutrition deficiency diseases | |
Calorific and nutritive values of various foods | |
Malnutrition | |
ill effects of junk foods | |
Fortification of food | |
Introduction to food safety, effects of artificial ripening, genetically modified foods, adulteration of foods, use of pesticides | |
Dietary supplements, food supplements – benefits and indications, Drug-Food Interactions, nutraceuticals | |
Chapter – 4 Introduction to Microbiology and common microorganisms | Epidemiology: Introduction and Application of Epidemiology. |
Understanding of terms such as a pandemic, epidemic, mode of transmission, quarantine, outbreak, isolation, contact tracing, incubation period, mortality, and morbidity. | |
Causative agents, clinical presentations, epidemiology and the role of Pharmacists in teaching people to prevent the below given communicable disease. | |
Chapter – 5 Respiratory infections | Measles, mumps, diphtheria, meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis, chickenpox, rubella, influenza (including H1N1, MERS, Avian-Flu, SARS) |
Intestinal infections | Viral hepatitis, acute diarrheal diseases, amebiasis, food poisoning, poliomyelitis, cholera, typhoid, and worm infestations |
Arthropod-borne infections | Malaria, chikungunya, dengue and filariasis |
Surface infections | Tetanus, trachoma and leprosy AIDS/HIV, STDs |
Introduction to health systems | |
Introduction to all ongoing National Health programs and their functioning, | |
role of pharmacists, objectives and outcome | |
Chapter – 6 Pharmacoeconomics | Introduction, the importance of pharmacoeconomics and basic terminologies |