Social pharmacy syllabus (D-Pharma 1st Year)

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Chapter 01

Intruduction to social pharmacy

• Defination 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 Defination, various dimensions, determinants, and health indicators.

• National health policy - indian perspective

• introduction to millenium development goals.sustainable development goals FIP development goals.

Chapter 02

Preventive healthcare - Role of Pharmacist in the following 

• Demography and family planning 
• Mother and child health, importance of breastfeeding, ill effects of breastfeeding, ill effects of infant milk substitutes and bottle feeding.
• Overview of vaccines, types of immunity and immunization
• Effect of Environment of health - water pollution, important of safe drinking water, waterbone diseases, air pollution, noise pollution, sewage and solid waste disposal, occupational illnesses, Environmental pollution due to pharmaceuticals.

• Psychosocial pharmacy - Drugs of misuses and abuse psytropics, narcotics, alcohol, tobacco product. Social impact of these habits on social health and productivity and suicidal behaviours.

Chapter 03

Nutrition and health

• Basic of nutrition - macronutrients and micronutrients importance of water and fibres in diet
• balanced diet, nutrition deficiency diseases, ill effects of junk foods, calorific and  nutritive values of various foods, fortification of food
• introduction to food safet, adulteration of foods, effects of artificial ripening, use of pesticides, gentically modified foods
• Dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, food supplements - indications , benefits, drug-food interactions

chapter 04

Introduction to microbiology and common mocroorganisms epidemiology

introdution to the terms epidemiology,its applications, terms such as epidemic , pandemic , endemic , mode of transmission , quarantine , isolation , incubation period , contact tracing. 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.

• intestinal infections - poliomyelitis, viral hepatitis, cholera, acute diarrheal disease, typhoid, amebiasis, worm infestations, food poisoning.

• Arthropod-borne infections - dengue, malaria, filariasis and chikungunya.

• surface infections - trachoma, tetanus, leprosy.

• STDs, HIV/AIDS.

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

Role of pharmacists in disaster management.

Chapter 07

Pharmacoeconomics

basics, healt insurance, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), health spending, out of-pocket expenses.