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AKTU Social Pharmacy and Public Health (Practical) (BP409P) Syllabus PDF – B.Pharm 4th Semester
Social Pharmacy and Public Health (Practical) BP409P
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Official AKTU syllabus of Social Pharmacy and Public Health (Practical) (BP409P) for B.Pharm 4th Semester – 1 credits, L-T-P 0-0-2. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.
Syllabus — Social Pharmacy and Public Health (Practical)
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Course Objectives
- Understand and apply basic health assessment techniques (blood pressure, BMI, and blood glucose levels), and perform essential first aid skills.
- Gain skills in the development of health education tools and communication strategies to promote prevention and control of communicable diseases and encourage healthy lifestyle modifications.
- Familiarize with mental health assessment tools and improve clinical communication skills through simulated role-play exercises focused on patient screening.
- Acquire practical knowledge of immunization practices and demonstrate correct vaccine administration techniques using simulation models.
- Understand the principles of epidemiology and designing preventive strategies for common communicable diseases. Develop foundational knowledge of Pharmacoeconomics and its applications. Evaluate health interventions, while identifying irrational drug use practices.
Course Outcomes
| CO | Upon successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: |
| No. | |
| 1 | Perform basic health screening and first aid procedures using appropriate techniques. |
| 2 | Develop and disseminate health promotion and disease prevention materials |
| 3 | Apply mental health screening tools and demonstrate patient assessment skills using role plays and relevant psychological scales. |
| 4 | Demonstrate vaccination techniques using appropriate models and standard protocols for immunization practices. |
| 5 | Interpret epidemiological data and apply to create preventive measures Evaluate healthcare interventions using pharmacoeconomic principles and recognize irrational drug use in real-world scenarios. |
Course Content
List of practical (Minimum 12 Experiments must be performed; * Mandatory experiments)
- Training on health screening services (Blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), blood glucose levels, heart rate (pulse rate), respiratory rate, body temperature,
- Develop health promotion material for the prevention of communicable diseases.
- Role play- usage of different mental scales in patient screening.
- Case study on calculation of prevalence; incidence, odds ratio and relative risk.
- Design and demonstrate preventive strategies for major communicable diseases (group activity)
- Present a case study highlighting cost-benefit analysis in healthcare.
- Perform cost-effectiveness analysis for selected health interventions.
- Conduct cost-utility analysis to assess health program efficiency.
- Perform basic first aid techniques.
- Design informational leaflet on lifestyle modifications for disease prevention.
- Identify and illustrate irrational drug use with a real-world example.
- Prepare an immunization chart, interpret the vaccination schedule and perform patient counselling for vaccination*.
- Hand wash and hand sanitizing techniques*.
- Demonstration and practice of wound dressing in first aid and basic suturing techniques*.
- Practical training on routes of drug administration-oral, and other non-parenteral routes*.
- Practical training on routes of drug administration- parenteral routes*.
- Training on basic life support (BLS)*.
Recommended References
- Drummond, M. F., Sculpher, M. J., Claxton, K., Stoddart, G. L. and Torrance, G. W. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Oxford University Press.
- Harding, G. and Taylor, K. Social Pharmacy. Pharmaceutical Press.
- Jain, S. and Parle, M. Community Pharmacy Practice. CBS Publishers & Distributors.
- Park, K. Banarsidas Bhanot Publishers.
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