ABSTRACT
The goal of health promotion in disease outbreaks and health emergencies is to involve and enable people to gain more control to have healthier and safer lives. Behaviour change communication, Communication for Development (C4D) and hygiene promotion interventions help to prevent person-to-person disease transmission by targeting specific knowledge and skills, such as hand-washing with soap. Health promotion is concerned with the primary, secondary and tertiary stages of disease prevention. Information that is used for surveillance comes from various sources, including reported cases of communicable diseases, hospital admissions, laboratory reports, population surveys, reports of absence from school or work, and reported causes of death. A 'super-spreader' is a host, such as a human, that is infected with a disease and that in turn infects disproportionally more secondary contacts than other hosts also infected with the same disease. Health promotion can be delivered as a programme, a project, an intervention or a set of specific activities.
