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inspection, the consumers can get quality food. This helps to maintain good community
health. Therefore, it is considered as scope of community health.

b. Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases
Different types of communicable diseases affect the people in the community frequently.
Some of such communicable diseases may also spread in the form of epidemic diseases
affecting large number of people. These communicable disease may or may not be
easily controlled. If the people are made aware about personal hygiene, environmental
sanitation, healthy behaviors, proper use of latrines, intake of balanced and nutritious
diet, etc. these diseases can be easily prevented and controlled. So, prevention and control
of communicable diseases is considered as a scope of community health.

c. Environmental Sanitation
Environmental sanitation plays an important role in maintaining good health of the
people in the community. Due to lack of environmental sanitation, unhealthy behaviour
of people and due to carelessness, pollution increases in the environment. The polluted
environment becomes a suitable breeding area for germs and diseases. Therefore, a joint
effort of the community members is essential to maintain environmental sanitation.
Defferent types of programmes like conducting rally, street dramas, pamphleting, etc.
can be launched to raise awareness among the people. These activities directly affect
community health.

d. Control of Malnutrition
Malnutrition is the condition in which the body
either lacks sufficient amount of nutrients or intake
of maximum amount of nutrients than required
for the body. In the developing country like Nepal,
malnutrition is resulted due to lack of nutrients
required for the body. Due to illiteracy, food habits,
customs, improper feeding, food production and
supply, etc. large number of people become the victim Fig: 2
of malnutrition. The problems of malnutrition can
be controlled or prevented by the development of agriculture, improving the sources of
income, proper distribution of food materials, giving nutritional education, etc. These
programmes help to control malnutrition. So, it is regarded as a scope of community
health.

e. Control of Accidents and Injury
Human beings may meet with accidents at any time
and place. Such events can make the life of people
risky. To prevent the accidents, the people should
be provided with safety education. Safety education
should be provided at local level to save the life of
the people. So, control of accidents and injury is
considered as a scope of community health. Fig: 3
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