Public Health Promotion

According to WHO, health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.

IPHDC provides a number of services aimed at health promotion of individuals and communities. These services include thematic trainings, advocacy initiatives and research.  Below is a list of these services:

• Participatory approaches for research and health education;
• Occupational Safety and Health (OSH);
• WASH programming for schools and communities;
• Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH);
• Maternal and Child Health (MCH);
• Nutritional assessments and management;
• Mainstreaming HIV&AIDS in development programmes.

The courses that we currently offer on public health promotion include:

• Hygiene & Sanitation promotion using PHAST, CLTS and CHAST approaches;
• Hygiene & Sanitation Promotion for Emergency Contexts;
• Sustainable and Inclusive WASH in Schools (WinS);
• Sustainable and Inclusive WASH in Communities (WinC);
• Synergized WASH and Nutrition programming;
• Water Safety Planning for Drinking water supply systems (WSP);
• Social and Behaviour Change Communication for health promotion (SBCC).