Definition and Scope. Social Pharmacy as a discipline and its scope in improving the public health. Role of Pharmacists in Public Health. (2) Concept of Health - WHO Definition, various dimensions, determinants, and health indicators. (3)  National Health Policy – Indian perspective (1)  Introduction to Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, FIP Development Goals (1)

 Demography and Family Planning (3)  Mother and child health, importance of breastfeeding, ill effects of infant milk substitutes and bottle feeding (2)  Overview of Vaccines, types of immunity and immunization (5)

 Basics of nutrition – Macronutrients and Micronutrients (2)  Importance of water and fibres in diet (1)  Balanced diet, nutrition deficiency diseases, ill effects of junk foods, calorific and nutritive values of various foods, fortification of food (3)  Introduction to food safety, adulteration of foods, effects of artificial ripening, use of pesticides, genetically modified foods (1)  Dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, food supplements – indications, benefits, Drug-Food Interactions (2)

Epidemiology: Introduction to the terms Epidemiology, its applications, terms such as epidemic, pandemic, endemic, mode of transmission, quarantine, isolation, incubation period, contact tracing. (2) 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 (10)  Intestinal infections – poliomyelitis, viral hepatitis, cholera, acute diarrheal diseases, typhoid, amebiasis, worm infestations, food poisoning (8)  Arthropod-borne infections - dengue, malaria, filariasis and, chikungunya (4)  Surface infections – trachoma, tetanus, leprosy (3)  STDs, HIV/AIDS (3)

Role of Pharmacists in disaster management. Pharmacoeconomics - basics, Health Insurance, Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), Health spending, Outof-pocket expenses