The first edition of social and preventive pharmacy is a new book which covers important topics in social and preventive pharmacy. The book enunciates the principles and components of Primary health care and National health policies to achieve the goal of "Health for all". It provides entire information about the National Health Programs with particular emphasis on maternal and child health programs, family welfare planning. The book allows for the lucid understanding of different health and disease conditions. This book introduces communicable diseases, causative agent, mode of transmission and prevention of various diseases.

All the topics of the textbook are described in detail for the benefit of the student community. The text book has been designed to give the students rapid and easy access to all the information in a syllabus wise format by presenting the subject in a clear, understandable and logically organized way.