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The text 'Svasthavritta' compiled by Dr. Ghanashyam Dora is a comparative expression of the basic therapeutic approach of ancient Indian System of Medicines and modern facts and trends meant for maintenance and promotion of good health, prevention of diseases and cure of illness. This edition covers the entire syllabus at UG and PG levels, as prescribed by CCIM, and is substantiated with health-provoking elements, which will be of enormous necessity and constant source of impetus to the student of Ayurvedic discipline.

Prevention is any activity which reduces the risk of morality or morbidity from disease, and initiates to abate the transmission of diseases and deaths caused by food incompatibilities, pollution, aging, injury, drug abuse and environmental or ecological factors. This edition deals with vast and varied specialities of medicine that encompasses physical, psychological, emotional, and social well being so as to have longer life expectancy and lower rates of disability.

Despite these, this branch of Medicine addresses all human-health-related aspects of both the natural environment and the built environment, and provides the ways of combating the onset and threats of potentially detrimental/infectious diseases and epidemics, may be endemic, pandemic or syndemic nature, which are extensively prevalent among a group of human population of a region, caste, creed and may other boundaries. Preventive & Social Medicine also deals the ongoing policies and programmes envisaged by WHO and other health- related National and International Organizations that come within the remit of health and safety. Everywhere of this edition, the readers will be pleased to experience the healthcare measures revealed extensively in the spheres of Ayurveda, India Philosophical Schools, ethics and spiritualism, and modern medical viewpoints as well.