title: Community matters - why outbreak responses need to integrate health promotion.
abstract: Communities are characterized by common interests, common ecology, and common social system or structure. These characteristics, qualities, and processes involved in the community affect both health behaviors and health outcomes during disease outbreaks. Hence, health promotion theorists and practitioners emphasize working 'with' rather than 'on' communities. They believe health promotion, with all its experiences in community mobilization, empowerment, and health literacy programs, should be part of disease prevention and control efforts from the very beginning. Health promotion knowledge needs to be fully integrated into infectious disease control, especially in the context of outbreaks.
authors.affiliation: Global Health Programme, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland ilona.kickbusch@graduateinstitute.ch.
authors.forename: Ilona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kickbusch
authors.affiliation: Global Health Programme, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: K Srikanth
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Reddy
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D058873:Pandemics / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011209:Power, Psychological
keywords: Ebola; community action; health promotion; outbreak response