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Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition encompasses recent advances in the field of community medicine to help students learn how to not only prevent disease, but also promote health. The text is presented in a bulleted format for easy reading. The text is supported by easy-to-reproduce flowcharts, tables, life cycles of parasites, treatment algorithms, well-drawn figures, concept maps, graphs. The distribution of diseases is depicted through the use of maps. New topics include: The epidemiology of stress The epidemiology of Leptospirosis The epidemiology of Asian Lineage Avian Influenza H7N9 virus. Health strategies for malaria elimination. Oral health programmes. Floods and health. Nipah virus disease. Daily allowances of nutrients. Global vaccination action plans. Operational guidelines on the introduction of measles Rubella vaccine. Global health strategies on viral hepatitis. Immunisation schedules: zoonoses, Zika vaccine, Mycobacterium indicus pranii vaccine, and post-exposure Prophylaxis for leprosy.