IAPSM recognizes Community Medicine as a specialist branch of medical science and defines it as “a science and art of promoting health, preventing diseases and prolonging life by range of interventions (promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative) in close partnership or association with health care delivery system and with active community participation and inter-sectoral coordination.” Community Medicine focuses on determinants of health, local health issues, community-oriented primary health care, and organization of health care services to attain optimal quality of health
