Important of Community Diagnosis

1. It provides an overall picture of the local community and the residents’ concerns, and helps to determine existing health problems of community
2. It helps to determine the magnitude of health problems, their quantity & limitations
3. It helps to identify factors that affect the health of a population and determine the availability of resources within the community to adequately address these factors
4. It help to make decision on relation between existing health problems & factors affecting them
5. It guides for fixing priorities for solving problems
6. It provides guidelines for collection of baseline information or data regarding the program.
7. It gives feedback about the implementation, monitoring, surveillance and supervision of the program.
8. It helps to study the effectiveness of health service of community and its effect.
9. It helps to make systematic planning and implementation program by identifying the felt need & observed need of the community.
10. It helps to mobilize the public participation for improving community health. 
11. It acts as a data reference for the community under study
12. It suggests priority areas for intervention and the feasible solutions
13. It indicates the resource allocation and the direction of work plans
14. It creates opportunities for intersectoral collaboration and media involvement
15. It forms basis of setting indicators for community health evaluation