How does public health differ from personal health?

The concept of public health consists
in promoting all-round programmes for the prevention and treatment of diseases/health
hazards of a group/community/nation conducted by governments/semi-goverment
agencies/non-government organizations in different domains of social/public life. The
goals of such programmes include awareness building, prevention, management/erradication
with regard to all sorts of threats towards the health and hygiene of the people. Public
health programmes deal with:

* environmental awareness
campaign ;

* awareness of infectious diseases
;

* vaccination/erradication programmes
;

* supply of pure drinking water
;

* services to provide standard health care for all
;

Personal health, on the other hand,
is all about individual health care: washing hands, taking balanced diet, regular health
check-up, to be in touch with health care professionals etc.