The text has been revised and recomposed into new chapters and topics, accompanied with the ‘role of nurses in various programmes’ that are clear and easy-to-read with more diagrams and practicals. Major changes have been incorporated in MCH, Concepts of Community Health Nursing, Biomedical Waste Management, Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals, National Immunization Schedule, Management Information System, IMS, SRS, New Health Programmes, Methods of Presenting Data and the Level of Prevention. It deals with all the aspects of theory and practical knowledge in the areas of community organization, community development, community diagnosis, expanded healthcare programmes, and special schemes on MCH and job responsibility of various field functionaries, extended and expanded role of nurses.