Community Health Nursing is rapidly emerging at the centre stage of health care in our country. There is a need to coordinate the promotive, preventive and curative aspects of Health Care. Nurses are one of the important agents of change and can effect the change in health care delivery system to enable all the people to attain healthy and productive life. Community Health Nurse plays an important role in providing comprehensive health care to the individual, family and community. She takes a leading role and works as a team member with other health personnel working in the community in urban and rural areas. This book is an endeavour to simplify Community Health Nursing so that students can understand the basic concepts while applying the theory into community health practice. An attempt has been made to make each chapter concise and easily understandable with simplified measures, diagrams etc. At the end of each unit questions to test the knowledge of the topics covered have been highlighted.1 history of community health and community health care. 2 introduction to community health nursing. 3 family health approach. 4 introduction to health disease and epidemiology. 5 epidemiology of non-communicable diseases. 6 epidemiology of communicable diseases. 7 health information and statistics.