Aditi Shrivastava

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Public health aims to understand and influence the social, cultural and economic determinants of health as well as to study and structure health systems as efficient channels for health services delivery. Public health is thus, a discipline built on the academic tradition of inquiry involving research, teaching and professional practice to prevent disease and promote health in populations.Ahmedabad is the seventh largest city in India with over 60 lakhs population and total area of 466 sq. km. Ahmedabad like any other city is experiencing a rapid health transition with the population growth and other factors. It is challenged both by an unfinished agenda of infectious diseases, nutritional deficiencies and unsafe pregnancies as well as the challenge of escalating epidemics of non-communicable diseases. This composite risk to the city’s health and development needs an intensive public health response that can ensure efficient delivery of cost-effective interventions for health promotion, disease prevention and affordable diagnostic and therapeutic health care.
The study also talks about improving the public health organisation from within to improve efficiency and productivity.