• A great asset for medical undergraduate as well as postgraduate students, trainers of medical and paramedical personnel, teachers of community medicine and administrators concerned with health care delivery. • Compilation of policies on health and family welfare. • Precisely and timely updated, the new edition incorporating nutrition, national health and related programmes with latest available information. • Each programme has been dealt with from managerial as well as technical aspects. • Changes in the programmes have been included. • Recent references and data have been updated.