Community, Social & Administrative Pharmacy: Course Outline (515-IIB)

1 Definitions and background

2 Public health and community pharmacy

• Epidemiology & its control
• Epidemiological methodology with a focus on specific disease states
• Pharmacoepidemiology (including drug utilization review)
• Preventive health (EPI & CDC)
• Family planning and health Policy

3 Medical complication of drug taking

• general and socio-economic aspects

4 Patient education and counselling  

5 Control of drug abuse and misuse

6 Role of pharmacist

•  As public health educator in the community for drug monitoring
• Drug information

7 Health system research

•  Knowledge skills of research methods
• Epidemiologic study design
• Experimental study design
• Pre- and post-marketing surveys
• Application of various statistical procedures in pharmacy and medical research
• Causality assessment as well as the sensitivity
• Specificity tests in pharmacy practice

8 Pharmacoeconomics

• Pharmacoeconomic modeling & interpretation

9 Alternative therapies

• Background
• Philosophy and use of complementary and alternative therapies including herbal medicines
• Homoeopathy
• Acupuncture
• Acupressure
• Bach Flower remedies
• Aromatherapy and reflexology

10 Pharmacy layout design

• Objectives of layout design
• Types of community pharmacies (pharmaceutical centre prescription-oriented pharmacies
• Traditional pharmacies and the super drug store)
• Consumer goods and purchases
• Classes of layout designs
• Principles and characteristics of layout design
• Traffic flow analysis