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BP 802T SOCIAL AND PREVENTIVE PHARMACY

Categories: 8th Semester
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About Course

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 issuesrelated 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 tohealth and
pharmaceutical issues

What Will You Learn?

  • Recommended Books (Latest edition):
  • 1. Short Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, Prabhakara GN, 2
  • nd Edition,
  • 2010, ISBN: 9789380704104, JAYPEE Publications
  • 2. Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine (Mahajan and Gupta), Edited by Roy
  • Rabindra Nath, Saha Indranil, 4
  • th Edition, 2013, ISBN: 9789350901878, JAYPEE
  • Publications
  • 3. Review of Preventive and Social Medicine (Including Biostatistics), Jain Vivek, 6
  • th
  • Edition, 2014, ISBN: 9789351522331, JAYPEE Publications
  • 4. Essentials of Community Medicine—A Practical Approach, Hiremath Lalita D,
  • Hiremath Dhananjaya A, 2
  • nd Edition, 2012, ISBN: 9789350250440, JAYPEE
  • Publications
  • 5. Park Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, K Park, 21
  • st 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

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, lymphatic 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.

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