Community Medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with the health of populations. It strives to protect and promote the health and well-being of the community through the Primary Health Care approach. Health needs of populations are measured and appropriate strategies are developed to improve the health status of the community through health promotion, disease prevention and health protection. Students of this subject will have to apply the knowledge they have gained in several areas of medicine for the benefit of the community. They are taught the preventive, curative and promotive aspects of every illness become familiar with the tools available for implementation including health communications and informatics, applications of social and behavioral sciences, and health policy, law and ethics. Students will evaluate methods for addressing non-communicable diseases, communicable disease, environmental diseases, and injury.