Abstract
The role of health promoters and educators in the current and future response to COVID-19 is critical, but, to date, under explored. This opinion paper offers a number of important contributions that this professional group may offer both in the immediate and future strategy of global public health. While the importance of a medical model of health cannot be underplayed, the social model of health suggests that some groups in society are being more disproportionately impacted than others. Health promotion has been committed to reducing inequalities and therefore offers ‘a voice’ to those most marginalised. The paper suggests that bottom-up approaches focusing on building individual and community control is essential and, moreover, the concepts of a settings approach in health promotion, the fostering of critical health literacy and ‘salutogenesis’ may be worthy of further debate and discussion.
Highlights
The role of health promoters and educators in the current and future response to COVID-19 is critical, but, to date, under explored
Any further responses from the reviewers can be found at the end of the article Introduction The global health challenges that have been posed by COVID-19 have been far-reaching, devastating and tragic
We are in unprecedented times in relation to global health
Summary
The role of health promoters and educators in the current and future response to COVID-19 is critical, but, to date, under explored. This short opinion piece, with the hope of stimulating debate and dialogue, suggests that health promoters and educators have a critical role in the current and future response to this pandemic but have so far been slow to respond.
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