Health Education and Health Promotion Changing in Corona

The 28th Sanpo-kai Summer Seminar 2020" was held online on September 13 (Sunday) In the activities of Sanpo-kai (http://sanpokai umin jp/), a study group of multi-professional occupational health staff, the summer seminar is intended to discuss topics that cannot be dealt with in the monthly meetings once a year This year's 28th Summer Seminar invited a foreign lecturer as a keynote speaker for the first time in Sanpo-kai I have known him since we worked together on salt and smoking cessation intervention studies, and he hosted an international online symposium on the response to the new corona on June 21 (Sunday), and I was impressed by his summary of good practices in Asian countries The aim of this session was to learn about the impact of the corona from an international and global perspective, and then to consider health education and health promotion in whiz corona professions 　The keynote address in Part I, "How the New Coronavirus Changed the World?　How has health education and health promotion changed? Dr Myo said that the impact of the novel Health disparities were shown to have increased In the COVID-19 era, health education and health promotion have included social distance and infection prevention behaviors such as masks and hand hygiene In addition, the same traditional healthy lifestyle habits, such as physical activity, healthy eating and smoking cessation, are targeted While there are many similarities in the basics of behavioral theory, public health interventions in social distance can be difficult because of potential conflicts with national cultures (e g , cherry blossom viewing in Japan, water festivals in Thailand and Myanmar, Ramadan in the Muslim world) On the other hand, first-wave containment has been implemented in various Asian countries, with good practices such as Thailand (local health volunteers), Vietnam (YouTube health education reaching 45 million people), Myanmar (hosting hundreds of thousands of returning workers and local isolation to protect vulnerable health systems) He also spoke about He cited the fact that many health education and health promotions have gone online during the period of restraint, and the use of cell phones even in poor neighborhoods, and stated that digital health promotion and e-literacy are very important Let's see the positive of the negative " and concludes by talking about the importance of focusing on the positive aspects of change, even in difficult situations I received it While translated slides by Dr Fumiko Kitajima (Juntendo University) were distributed, the lectures and questions were conducted entirely in English, which seemed to be very stimulating for the participants