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Public Health Pharmacy
Health education, healthcare delivery systems, pharmacoepidemiology, and environmental health.
4 Units80 Total Marks140 Teaching Hours
Units
1
Health Education
Concept of health, principles of health education, learning, methods and media.
30 hrs15 marks
Subtopics (9)
- Definition of health
- Promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services
- Factors influencing health
- Principles of health education
- Importance of health education in pharmacy
- Definition of learning and ways of learning
- Factors affecting learning
- Health education methods (Individual, Group, Mass)
- Selection criteria for health education media
2
Health Care Delivery System in Nepal
Organogram, Primary Health Care, Alma Ata, PHC elements, MDG/SDG.
20 hrs10 marks
Subtopics (6)
- Current organogram of health care system of Nepal
- Primary Health Care and Alma Ata declaration
- Principles of Primary Health Care
- Elements of Primary Health Care
- Role of pharmacist in PHC
- Millennium Development Goals and SDG health aspects
3
Pharmacoepidemiology
Epidemiology concepts, disease transmission, measures of morbidity/mortality/risk, epidemiological studies.
40 hrs25 marks
Subtopics (9)
- Introduction, scope and uses of Epidemiology
- Definition and importance of Pharmacoepidemiology
- Disease transmission (Chain of Infection)
- Epidemiological triad (Agent, Host, Environment)
- Measures of morbidity (Incidence, Prevalence)
- Measures of mortality (Crude death rate, Specific death rate, Birth rate, IMR, MMR)
- Measures of risk (Relative risk, Attributable risk, Odds Ratio)
- Epidemic, Endemic and Pandemic
- Types of epidemiological studies (Descriptive, Analytical, Experimental)
4
Environmental Health
Environment, water pollution, air pollution, waste management, food hygiene, occupational diseases.
50 hrs30 marks
Subtopics (16)
- Environment, Environmental Health, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Water quality standards (Physical, chemical, biological)
- Hard and soft water, removing hardness
- Water uses: Domestic, Public, Industrial, Agricultural
- Water pollutants and health impacts
- Water purification methods (Household: Boiling, Filtration, SODIS; Large-scale: Slow/Rapid sand filtration)
- Air pollution: health effects and control measures
- Solid and liquid waste management
- Waste segregation (color-coded bins)
- Solid waste disposal: Landfilling, composting, incineration
- Liquid waste management: Soakage pit, Septic tanks
- 3R concept: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle
- Hospital waste management
- Food hygiene: importance, food intoxication vs infection
- Food fortification, additives, and adulteration
- Occupational health and safety, occupational diseases