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Based on community health practice in eastern Africa, this new second edition hasused examples of problems, practices and solutions from all over Africa to meeet the needs of a wider readership and it stresses the community-based approach throughout. Community health draws on a wide variety of disciplines - demography, sociology, epidemiology, planning and management- to support activities such as immunization/ child spacing, sanitation, communicable diseases. Primarily written for those in charge of health centres and dispensaries.