Community health conditions

The Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities movement, an international activity that emerged from the WHO and related programs, emphasizes building broad community support for public policies that promote health by improving the quality of life (Hancock, 1993; Duhl and Drake, 1995; Flynn, 1996).

In the case of community health, policies typically involve factors such as health education, construction of infrastructure, hospital development, the supply of medical or nursing personnel, and so on

The outcome may then be the rate of incidence, prevalence, or mortality due to a particular illness (e