Community health means the science of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort community health is primarily concerned with the common issue of people's health in a community. It has the following scopes:
- Inspection of essential goods supplied in the community. Essential goos mean those goods and materials which are linked with the healthy survival of people.]
- Prevention and control of communicable diseases and epidemics.
- Environmental health and sanitation
- Immunization
- Prevention of malnutrition
- Safety risk management and first aid