Community, Social & Administrative Pharmacy: Course Outline (515-IIB)
The objective of this in Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy is to prepare students for independent, theory-based research leading to new knowledge and understanding of drug use, patient and provider communication and behaviors, health outcomes
Course Outline
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
E-Books
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Author: V., Derle D.
Publisher: Pharmamed Press
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Author: Andrews, Gavin J.
Publisher: Ashgate
Date Published: 2012 -
Author: Schweitzer, Stuart O.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Date Published: 2006
Text Books
Relevant Books
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Ansel's Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems by
Call Number: 615.1 ALLISBN: 9780781779340Publication Date: 2010 -
Cooper and gunn's dispensing for pharmaceutical students by
Call Number: 615.41 COOISBN: 8123909020Publication Date: 2000 -
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FASTtrack - Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing by
Call Number: 615.4 LANISBN: 9780857110558Publication Date: 2012 -
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British National Formulary (BNF) 69 by
Call Number: 615.13 BRIISBN: 9780857111562Publication Date: 2015 -
Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients, 7e by
Call Number: 615.1 HANISBN: 9781582121697Publication Date: 2012
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Author: Veatch, Robert M. Haddad, Amy Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Date Published: 2008
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Author: Merrills, Jon Fisher, Jonathan
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Date Published: 2006 -
Author: Blumenthal, David Herdman, Roger VA Pharmacy Formulary Analysis Committee
Publisher: National Academies Press
Date Published: 2000 -
Author: Seivewright, Nicholas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2009 -
Author: Higgs, Joy Sheehan, Dale Currens, Julie Baldry
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Date Published: 2012 -
Author: Schweitzer, Stuart O.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2006 -
Author: Griffin, John P. Posner, John Barker, Geoffrey R.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date Published: 2013 -
Author: Mohanta, Guru Prasad Manna, Prabal Kumar
Publisher: Pharma Book Syndicate
Date Published: 2006 -
Author: Bing, Eric Epstein, Marc J.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Date Published: 2013 -
Author: Harris, Neil Baker, John Gray, Richard
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Date Published: 2009 -
Author: Frier, M. Perkins, A C
Publisher: CRC Press
Date Published: 1999 -
Author: Sarker, Dipak Kumar
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Date Published: 2013