Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This is achieved by promoting health lifestyle, researching diseases and injury prevention. It is mostly concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. Public health is important because it affects people every day in every part of the world. It addresses broad issues that can affect the health of societies. This article is going to stipulate how best the people and the community can contribute to the issues of public health.
The major importance of public health is disease prevention. We have to thrive hard to fight against diseases. Everyone has a role to play in preventing diseases by being physically active, limit your intake of alcohol, reduce stress, and inspect the food that we eat, being a non-smoker and screened or tested regularly. When it comes to our health prevention is better than cure. Several diseases and injuries are preventable and can be treated much better if identified earlier. If one is not health and given the medication one has to follow the instructions that are prescribed by the medical doctors
Citizen participation is also needed to increase health care because some of our beliefs through our religion which do not allow us to go to clinics or hospitals for medical check-up must be set aside and focus on what makes our health better. As citizens we have to make sure that the air we breathe in is safe. We must avoid veld fires because they cause air pollution which will affect the air we breathe and affect our healthy at the end. We must also be responsible for our lives and avoid drinking unsafe water to avoid getting sick.
The public health contributes to the development of the economy since the health population live longer and save more. Poverty reduction is conversely with the impact of development policies 
on the achievement of health goals.
One can conclude that public health is important and it is a serious matter that must be dealt with to upgrade the living standards of the people and if well dealt with it will reduces the death mortality rate. This will led to the economic development of the country.