The Transferability of Health Promotion and Education Approaches Between Non-communicable Diseases and Communicable Diseases—an Analysis of Evidence

Many professionals in the public health fields dealing with infectious diseases (IDs) are unaware of the programs and approaches are taken by their colleagues in the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) arena, and vice versa. A particular instance of this is in the understanding and application of health promotion approaches. This project examined health promotion approaches to the prevention of NCDs that could be used in the prevention of IDs.