Can someone give me examples of successful health promotion strategies to combat diseases?

Look up the name "mechai" and you will learn plenty about the aggressive public health campaign that brought condom use and AIDS prevention to the forefront of Thai popular culture. Mechai is the name of a man who launched an essentially one-man campaign to encourage condom use in Thais. When his efforts took off, local health authorities came in to help him with HIV prevention efforts. As a result, skyrocketing HIV incidence actually leveled off within a few years.

Have you taken the time to learn about health behavior thoery? You might want to read about the Health Belief Model, Trans-Theoretical Model and Social Cognitive Theory. When you learn about these health behavior theories, the matieral is generally accompanied by examples of past health promotional campaigns built around those frameworks.

Mass screening of adults, and BCG immunisation of schoolchildren for TB has reduced its incidence in Australia very greatly, in my lifetime. I was born in 1954.

A worldwide effort to immunise people against smallpox has eradicated it from "the wild"; it now exists only in laboratories. Health experts are trying to do the same to eliminate polio, but it keeps cropping up in various countries. As a gut virus, it will be hard to eliminate, I think.

Addition of folic acid to many cheap staple foods in developed countries is reducing the incidence of neural tube defects such as spina bifida.

Educating people about the dangers of smoking is reducing the popularity of the habit in Australia. This will reduce the risk of smoking - related diseases, such as heart attack, stroke, and many cancers.

Educating Aussies about the dangers of sun exposure and asbestos exposure is leading to reduction in risk of cancers etc associated with them, too.