Chapter 1

• Introduction to Social  Pharmacy
• Definition 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 Definition, various dimensions, determinants, and health indicators.
• National Health Policy – Indian perspective (1) Public and Private Health System in India, National Health Mission (2) Introduction to Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, FIP Development Goals

Chapter 2

• Preventive healthcare – Role of Pharmacists in the following
• Demography and Family Planning
• Mother and child health, the importance of breastfeeding, ill effects of infant milk substitutes, and bottle feeding
• Overview of Vaccines, Types of Immunity, and Immunization
• Effect of Environment on Health – Water pollution, importance of safe drinking water, waterborne diseases, air pollution, noise pollution, sewage, and solid waste
• disposal, occupational illnesses, and environmental pollution due to pharmaceuticals
• Psychosocial Pharmacy: Drugs of misuse and abuse – psychotropics, narcotics, alcohol, tobacco products.
• Social Impact of these habits on social health, productivity, and suicidal behaviour

Chapter 3

• Nutrition and Health
• Basics of nutrition – Macronutrients and Micronutrients
• Importance of water and fibres in diet, Balanced diet, Malnutrition, nutrition deficiency diseases, ill effects of junk foods, calorific and nutritive values of various foods,
• fortification of food
• Introduction to food safety, adulteration of foods, effects of artificial ripening, use of pesticides, and genetically modified foods
• Dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, food supplements – indications, benefits, Drug-Food Interactions

Chapter 4

• Introduction to Microbiology and Common Microorganisms
• Epidemiology: Introduction to epidemiology and its applications. Understanding of terms such as epidemic, pandemic, endemic, mode of transmission, outbreak, quarantine, isolation, incubation period, contact tracing, morbidity, mortality
• Causative agents, epidemiology and clinical presentations, and the role of Pharmacists in educating the public in the 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 diseases, typhoid, amebiasis, worm infestations, food poisoning
• Arthropod-borne infections – dengue, malaria, filariasis, and chikungunya
• Surface infections – trachoma, tetanus, leprosy
• STDs, HIV/AIDS

Chapter 5

• Introduction to health systems and all ongoing National
• Health programs in India, their objectives, functioning, outcome, and the role of pharmacists.

Chapter 6

• Role of Pharmacists in Disaster Management

Chapter 7

• Pharmacoeconomics – Introduction, basic terminologies, and the importance of Pharmacoeconomics