Nirali Publication Social Pharmacy Textbook
| Authors Name | S.B. Bhise and M.S. Bhise |
| Book Editions | Latest Edition |
| Publishers | Nirali Prakashan |
| Price | Rs. 198 |
A Text Book of Social Pharmacy
| Authors Name | N. Murugesh and S. Sambath |
| Book Editions | Latest Edition |
| Publishers | Sathya Publishers |
| Price | Rs. 250 |
Social Pharmacy Book Topic-wise Summary
✓ Introduction to Social Pharmacy
The drug and medicine sector is studied from the social scientific & humanistic perspectives.
Social pharmacy consists of all the social factors that influence medicine use such as medicine and health-related beliefs, rules, attitudes, relationships, and processes.
✓ Preventive healthcare
Demography is the systematic or periodic study of population growth. The demography word is of Greek origin and is composed of two words, demos (people), implying the description of people.
Family planning is a practice of controlling the number of children one has and maintaining the intervals between their births, particularly using contraception or voluntary
sterilization.
✓ Nutrition and Health
Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological processes by which an organism uses food to support its life. It includes injection, absorption, assimilation biosynthesis catabolism, and excretion.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and the absence of
disease. The oldest definition of health is the absence of disease.
✓ Introduction to Microbiology and common microorganisms
The study of unicellular or cell-cluster microorganisms is termed microbiology. The term microbiology was introduced by Louis Pasteur who demonstrated that fermentation was caused by the growth of yeasts. The word Microbiology was derived from the Greek word.
✓ Epidemiology
Several disease epidemiology like Cholera, Malaria, Influenza, TB, AIDS Cancer, etc.
✓ National Health programs
After the independence of our nation, the National Health Programmes are launched by the Central Government for the control or eradication of communicable diseases, improvement of environmental sanitation, improving the standard of nutrition, control of the population, and promotion of rural health.
Various International agencies have been providing technical and material assistance in the implementation of these programs.
✓ Pharmacoeconomics
It is defined as the analysis of the cost of drug therapy to the health care system and society. It is a sub-discipline of health economics.
A Pharmacoeconomics study evaluates the cost (expressed in monetary terms) and effects (expressed in terms of monetary value, efficacy, or enhanced quality of life) of a pharmaceutical product.
Pharmacoeconomics studies serve to guide optimal healthcare resource allocation, in a standardized and scientifically grounded manner. Pharmacoeconomics refers to the scientific discipline that compares the value of one pharmaceutical drug or drug therapy to another.
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