Social Pharmacy

About this book

Social Pharmacy is one of the newer D.Pharma First Year papers, with a broad public-health syllabus that spans many topics — and this textbook brings all of it together in one clear, exam-focused book. Written strictly as per the PCI Education Regulation 2020 (ER20-15T), it follows the official syllabus chapter by chapter, so what you study is exactly what your university examines.

The book introduces Social Pharmacy as a discipline and the pharmacist’s role in public health, the WHO concept of health and its determinants, national health policy, India’s public and private health systems and the National Health Mission, and the Millennium, Sustainable and FIP development goals. It covers preventive healthcare and the pharmacist’s role in demography and family planning, mother and child health, immunization, the effect of the environment on health, and psychosocial pharmacy (drugs of misuse and abuse). Further chapters address nutrition and health (macro/micronutrients, balanced diet, malnutrition, food safety, nutraceuticals), microbiology and epidemiology with the causative agents, presentation and prevention of communicable diseases (respiratory, intestinal, arthropod-borne, surface and sexually transmitted, including COVID-19, H1N1 and SARS/MERS), all ongoing national health programmes in India, and an introduction to pharmacoeconomics.

Everything is explained in simple, clear English so first-year students can absorb this wide-ranging subject without difficulty, and the 156-page book keeps the whole syllabus in one convenient place.

Authored by a pharmacy faculty panel — Dr. Pradeep Kumar Vishwakarma, Dr. Shanti Bhushan Mishra, Mukul Maurya and Garima Sahu — and published by Shree Sai Prakashan, Meerut. Suitable for D.Pharma First Year students at every PCI-approved institute across India.