The problem solving paradigm is well known to public health practitioners and public health agencies. This approach is different from the clinical approach in the sense that instead of thinking in terms of patients, a public health practitioner thinks in terms of populations and instead of making clinical diagnosis, public health practitioner makes community diagnosis. Public health practitioners have had great impact on populations through effective public health interventions. Public health practitioners might not be visibly in touch with the patients but their fingers are always on the pulse of the population, through organized community based efforts, epidemiological data, health surveys and longitudinal studies. They use the evidence so generated for proper health care planning and instituting preventive, curative and rehabilitative services in the community. This is an Editorial.