BP 802T SOCIAL AND PREVENTIVE PHARMACY
Scope:
The purpose of this course is to introduce to students a
number of health issues and their challenges. This course also introduced a
number of national health programmes. 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:
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 in relation to 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
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, l ymphatic
filariasis, pneumonia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cancer, drug
addiction-drug substance abuse
Unit III:
National health programs,
its objectives, functioning and outcome of the following: HIV AND
AIDS control programme,
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 programme.
Unit IV:
National health intervention programme for mother and child,
National family welfare programme, National tobacco control programme, National
Malaria Prevention Program, National programme for the health care for the
elderly, Social health programme; role of WHO in Indian national program
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.
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, 6th
Edition, 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
Recommended Journals:
1. Research in Social
and Administrative Pharmacy, Elsevier, Ireland
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