Definition and Scope. Social Pharmacy as a discipline and its scope in improving the public health. Role of Pharmacists in Public Health.
Concept of Health -WHO Definition, various dimensions, determinants, and health indicators.
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
Preventive healthcare – Role of Pharmacists in the following
Demography and Family Planning
Mother and child health, the importance of breastfeeding, ill effects of infant milk substitutes, and bottle feeding
Overview of Vaccines, Types of Immunity, and Immunization
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, and environmental pollution due to pharmaceuticals
Psychosocial Pharmacy: Drugs of misuse and abuse – psychotropics, narcotics, alcohol, tobacco products.
Social Impact of these habits on social health, productivity, and suicidal behaviour
Basics of nutrition – Macronutrients and Micronutrients
Importance of water and fibres in diet, Balanced diet, Malnutrition, nutrition deficiency diseases, ill effects of junk foods, calorific and nutritive values ofvarious foods,
fortification of food
Introduction to food safety, adulteration of foods, effects of artificial ripening, use of pesticides, and genetically modified foods
Introduction to Microbiology and Common Microorganisms
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
Causative agents, epidemiology and clinical presentations, and the role of Pharmacists in educating the public in the prevention of the following communicable diseases:
