Community health, a field of public health,
is a discipline which concerns itself with the study and improvement of
the health characteristics of biological communities. While the term community
can be broadly defined, community health tends to focus on geographical
areas rather than people with shared characteristics. The health
characteristics of a community are often examined using geographic information system (GIS) software and public health
datasets. Some projects, such as InfoShare or GEOPROJ combine GIS with
existing datasets, allowing the general public to examine the
characteristics of any given community in participating countries.
