Hand Book Of Health Education And Community Pharmacy

In recent years there has been increasing awareness of the demands that ill-health places on national resources. As a consequence, there has been a greater emphasis placed on prevention of illness, and an encouragement of health promotion. Pharmacists, since they regularly come into contact with both healthy and sick members of the public, are thus ideally placed to advice and influence people to lead healthy lifestyles and thus possibly prevent future illness. The Handbook of Pharmacy Health Education contains a wealth of information that the health professional, and particularly the pharmacist, can utilise in promoting healthy living. This new edition of the Handbook has been extensively revised by a team of health professionals and reflects changes in practice, therapeutics, and health promotion. An additional new chapter on companion animals and human health has also been included.

Discusses concepts of health; nutrition and health; demography and family planning; first aid; environment and health; microbiology; communicable diseases; non-communicable diseases; and epidemiology.

The textbook of Social Pharmacy has been written for students of diploma in pharmacy first-year students keeping in mind specific requirements of the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), Education Regulation - 2020. This is a bilingual book in both English and Hindi for easy understanding to students. This book is covering the entire syllabus as per new PCI norms including practicals and previous year question papers. This book containing ten chapters with an introduction to social pharmacy. In preceding chapters role of pharmacists, environment and health, psychosocial pharmacy, nutrition and health, epidemiology, national health program and pharmacoeconomics have discussed. This book is basically health education and community pharmacy.

The second edition of this popular textbook has undergone highly-significant changes in terms of the subject matter, treatment of the topics, and formatting, so as to make it more useful to students and teachers. - Descriptions of diseases has been added to keep pace with the time. - A liberal addition of figures to facilitate learning have bee included. - The glossary is a new addition that will serve as a handy compilation of definitions of common terms. - The question bank has been greatly expanded.