SOCIAL AND PREVENTIVE PHARMACY

This book discusses the concepts of health and disease, and the evaluation of public health. It also delves into the understanding of prevention and control of diseases, social causes of diseases, and social problems of the sick. The topics of social and health education, hygiene and health, and sociology and health are also covered.
Furthermore, the book provides insights into preventive medicine and the general principles of prevention and control of diseases. It includes specific diseases such as cholera, SARS, Ebola virus, influenza, acute respiratory infections, malaria, chicken guinea, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, pneumonia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cancer, and drug addiction-drug substance abuse.
The book also discusses various national health programs, their objectives, functioning and outcome. These programs include the HIV and AIDS control program, TB, Integrated disease surveillance program (IDSP), National leprosy control program, National mental health program, National program for prevention and control of deafness, Universal immunization program, National program for control of blindness, Pulse polio program, and more.
The final sections of the book cover national health intervention programs for mother and child, national family welfare program, national tobacco control program, national malaria prevention program, national program for the health care for the elderly, social health program, and the role of WHO in the Indian national program.