IntroductionPublic health as it is implicated in community life: it is important to conceptualise what this might mean. Furthermore, public health is seen as a multidisciplinary perspective where it can be defined on many levels, and I find it may be difficult to understand its meaning. By simple understanding of public health, I refer to an approach derived from Winslow (1920) and Baggott (2000). In a sense, public health is seen as a modern philosophical and ideological perspective based on "fairness" and aimed at determining injustices in society. It is seen as a "science" and an "art" in the sense that it deals with the cause of disease, the treatment of disease, as well as laboratory experiments, intervention, and the promotion of population health. Winslow (1920, p. 23) defined public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts to sanitize the environment, control of community infections, the education of the individual in the principles of personal hygiene, the organization of the medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of diseases, and the development of a social apparatus that ensures that every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for maintaining health. On the other hand, it is “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized effort of society” (Acheson, 1998; in Cowley S, 2002, p. 261). sense which "implies the promotion of health, prevention of disease, treatment of disease, assistance for disabled people and continuous development...... middle of paper ...... initiatives that link health facilities with the broader set of public sector reforms and, in doing so, there is a need to address the underlying determinants of health inequalities Works Cited Baggott R (2000) Public Health Policy and Politics: London McMillan PressCowley S (2002) Public Health in Policy and. Practice Bailliere TindallCurtis S (2004) Health Inequality and Geographical Perspectives LondonGormley K (1999) Social Policy and Health Care Churchill LivingstoneGraig P and Lindsay G, (2000) Nursing for Public Health Population –Based Care Churchill LivingstoneGriffiths and Hunter D, (1999) Perspectives in Public Health Radcliffe MedicalOrme J, Powell J Taylor P Harrison T Gray M (2003) Public Health for 21st Century Open University PressLe Grand, J (1987) 'Equity, health and healthcare', social justice research, 1, 257-74