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The book is based on community health practice in eastern Africa, this is a new edition and has used examples of problems, practices and solutions from all over Africa to meet the needs of a wide readership. It places emphasis on the community-based approach throughout.The sequence of topics has been rearranged into six sections: the principles and practice of community health, community health interventions, tackling communicable diseases, non communicable diseases, organisation of community health services with need for management, information services and capacit.y building, and community health in the 21st century