Community health and environment

ABSTRACT

Our community health and environment programme serves to protect the basics pure food, clean water, fresh air and healthy communities. New issues are always on the rise, so we must stay on the cutting edge to protect our communities, our health and the environment. A EURO symposium in 1966 defined community health as including "all the personal health and environmental services in any human community, irrespective of whether such services were public or private ones". Historical background from ancient India to 20th century will be discussedú in this article which will also enlighten us on the changing concepts in public health, changing global scenario and its effect on community health