Community health is concerned with all the scientific measures for improving the quality of life so that people as individual may enjoy long life and maximal productivity to the best of their abilities. The measure includes protective and promotive services made available to the people in the form of preventive, curative, and rehabilitative health programmes. Public health on the other hand has been defined as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals
The national health policy aims to achieve health for all Nigerians based on the national philosophy on social justice and equity. A health system based on Primary Health care (PHC) is adopted for the means of achieving the goals, health for all by the year 2000. According to WHO, “‘Health for All’ does not mean an end to disease and disability, or that doctors and nurses will care for everyone. It means that resources for health are evenly distributed and that essential health care is accessible to everyone. It means that health begins at home, in schools, and at the workplace, and that people use better approaches for preventing illness and alleviating unavoidable disease and disability. It means that people recognize that ill-health is not inevitable and that they can shape their own lives and the lives of their families, free from the avoidable burden of disease.
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