
Social and Preventive Pharmacy Syllabus, Notes, PDF, Books
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,
Malnutrition and its prevention.
Sociology and health:
Socio-cultural factors related to health and disease,
Impact of urbanization on health and disease,
Hygiene and health:
Personal hygiene and health care;
Unit II
Preventive medicine: General principles of prevention and control
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:
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,
Role of WHO in Indian national program
Unit V
Community services in rural, urban and school health:
Improvement in rural sanitation,
National urban health mission,
Health promotion and education in school.
BP802T MCQ Social and Preventive Pharmacy MCQ with answers
Recommended Books (Latest edition):
- Short Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, Prabhakara GN, 2nd Edition, 2010, ISBN: 9789380704104, JAYPEE Publications
- Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine (Mahajan and Gupta), Edited by Roy Rabindra Nath, Saha Indranil, 4th Edition, 2013, ISBN: 9789350901878, JAYPEE Publications
- Review of Preventive and Social Medicine (Including Biostatistics), Jain Vivek, 6th Edition, 2014, ISBN: 9789351522331, JAYPEE Publications
- Essentials of Community Medicine—A Practical Approach, Hiremath Lalita D, Hiremath Dhananjaya A, 2nd Edition, 2012, ISBN: 9789350250440, JAYPEE Publications
- Park Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, K Park, 21st Edition, 2011, ISBN-14: 9788190128285, BANARSIDAS BHANOT PUBLISHERS.
- Community Pharmacy Practice, Ramesh Adepu, BSP publishers, Hyderabad
Recommended Journals:
- Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Elsevier, Ireland 159
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