Strengthening Parasitic Infection Prevention and Control Practices: An Aspect of Health Promotion

Abstract

Aims: to describe aspects of specific health promotion which will strengthening parasitic infection prevention and control practices. Discussion: Health promotion is a dynamic and continuous process of enabling people to have increase control over and to improve their own health by finding the root causes of health problems and its underlying condition and to overcome barriers and also to improve aspects of socioeconomic, level of knowledge, environmental improvement, political and legislative arrangement and even law enforcement if necessary. Those aspects, which also work in the case of Parasitic diseases such as malaria and STH, are important part of early intervention and disease prevention and can be used to help build social and physical environments that support healthy behaviors. Health promotion approach for parasitic disease is always specific and based on the existing knowledge regarding the parasite’s life cycle and its existence in nature and interaction with other organism inhabitants of the same environment. Conclusion: The complexity of specific health promotion regarding parasitic infection, in which programs to control or eliminate parasitic diseases are positioned, and the development of better understanding regarding its contributing factors are still a major issue in parasite disease control. The competition for resources in the health as well as other social sectors will be a continuing challenge; effective parasite control will be dependent on how such resources are accessed and deployed to effectively address well-defined problems some of which are readily amenable to successful interventions with proven methods. Failure to sustain control of parasites is always a threat for the society, but health promotion and health education is always being a primary option to prevent parasite transmission, controlling the parasitic epidemiology and followed by the establishment of better healthy community.