Community health
Community health refers to the healthy status of the member of the community to solve the problems affecting their health and to the totality of a health care provided for the community. Community health broadly encompasses the entire gamut of community efforts for maintaining, protecting, improving the health of the people. Modern community health seeks to bring together all the available health services (e.g. medical care, mother & child care, family planning services, environmental sanitation, laboratory services, disease control programme, health education).
Public health
Public health is the science and arts of—
1) Preventive disease
2) Prolonging lifespan
3) Promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts for—
i) the sanitation of the environment.
ii) the control of communicable diseases
iii) the education of the individual in personal hygiene
iv) the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease. v)the development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living for maintenance of health.
A recent definition of public health, which meets the criteria of modern public health is as follows — “Public health is the planning carrying out an evolution of health measures and system services that both maintain and improve the health of a population group, prevent and control diseases within the population group”.
Dimensions of health
There are four major dimensions of health included in the WHO definitions of health—1. Physical health
2. Mental health
3. Social health
4. Spiritual health
Besides these, many more can be cited e.g. 1. Emotional 2. Vocational 3. Philosophical 4. Cultural 5. Socio-economical 6. Environmental 7. Political 8. Educational 9. Nutritional
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