Health Promotion Challenges of COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The study is aimed at exploring health promotion as a strategic panacea in COVID-19 pandemic challenges. Health is seen as the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of living organisms and a way of managing themselves when faced with challenges. Health promotion helps people to increase control over their health status not merely pursuing treatment and cure but targeting at prevention. A lot of challenges are prevalent during Covid-19 pandemic era such as health status of citizen, sharp economic obstruction and decline in numbers of people visiting health institutions, securing the health of doctors and other allied health workers, lockdown. The National Centre for Disease Control has not approve any drugs for the prevention and treatment of covid-19 and only health measures that can help in curbing its wide spread have not been set. Conclusively, it is observed that the covid-19 era encompasses health, family life, social distance effect of lockdown, postponement of school examinations, fear of the unknown and equally there are controversial circumstance that are involved during this covid-19 pandemic era. The pandemic seems not to have excluded any community in the world at large. Therefore, it is recommended that people should maintain proper health care services in respect to COVID 19 Pandemic and adequate surveillance service should be stirred up to checkmate the breakdown of COVID 19 Pandemic protocols.