Pharmacovigilance means:
Monitoring of drug safety
Monitoring of unethical trade of drugs
Monitoring pharma students
Monitoring drug efficacy
Pharmacovigilance has been defined by the WHO as the ''science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problems'' The information generated by pharmacovigilance is useful in educating doctors about the adverse drug reaction and in the official regulation of drug use Ref; KD Tripathi Pharmacology 7th edition (page no:82)
General pharmacology