Volume 4(1) April 2021, Journal of Community Empowerment for Health 56 Wityadarda et al. Internet-based approaches for health promotion Vol 4 (1) 2021, 56-65| Review DOI: 10.22146/jcoemph.57084 1. Introducton The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the pathogen identfed as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2). 1 COVID-19 has caused a pandemic with 115 million confrmed cases worldwide, including over 2.5 million deaths based on recent World Health Organizaton (WHO) data as of March 3, 2021. 2 This conditon causes a major problem on a mult sector basis, including the health and informaton sectors which should be beneftng by the digitalizaton era. 3 Difcultes in accessing informaton contnue to worsen with ‘work from home’ and ‘online class’ policies which are not applicable for everyone. Policies aimed at preventng the spread of disease also limit people from gaining the direct informaton that they used to get from their school or health care providers. 4 Moreover, the lack of informaton for these populatons can seriously impact their overall health status including stress-induced home environment, alteraton of dietary intake, physical inactvity, and less social interactons. 5,6 Wellness educaton as an essental part of health promoton that is also negatvely impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic is actually one of the key elements that needs to be done on a daily basis. One soluton to face this challenge is using e-wellness programs that were used even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The improvement of wellness knowledge is proven to be efectve to gain the basic informaton in maintaining overall health. 7,8 For example, Guerrero in 2020 found that an interventon of educatng parents about physical actvity can increase A review of Internet-based approaches for health promotion programs related to the COVID-19 pandemic and wellness education Carissa Wityadarda, 1 Gusti Ayu Sinta Deasy Andani, 1,2 Rina Rostarina 1,3,* 1 Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine Padjadjaran University, Bandung Indonesia 2 Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine Jenderal Achmad Yani University, Cimahi, Indonesia 3 Central of Health Training, Public Health Ofce West Java, Indonesia SUBMITTED: 20 June 2020 REVISED: 17 August 2020 ACCEPTED: 10 October 2020 ABSTRACT COVID-19 pandemic continues to have signifcant impacts in various sectors of society worldwide, including Indonesia. One major impact of COVID-19 occurs in the health information sector especially with social distancing regulations that inhibit people to access health care providers. This has led to several other problems such as behavior alteration involving unhealthy lifestyles and misleading information. Due to the limitations of social interaction, health care providers have proposed various methods to provide health promotions related to COVID-19 and wellness education that are accessible by the whole society with or without Internet access. This study aimed to review the current strategies of health information systems to increase knowledge about COVID-19 and overall wellness by implementation of Internet-based programs. This review is based on secondary study conducted with online search engines. Some previous studies showed that online training has improved knowledge signifcantly. Other research also described how the success of a community education program depends on adequate motivation and access to proper information. Three main factors that cause the failure of community education are lack of self-efcacy, lack of information, and distraction without proper supervision. Lack of information is due to difculty to gain Internet access in some areas and for some populations. In conclusion, Internet-based approaches can be implemented for health promotion programs related to COVID-19 and wellness due to the massive growth of the Internet use in Indonesia. © The Journal 2021. This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. KEYWORDS COVID-19 Health promotion Wellness Internet Self-efcacy Self-management *Correspondence: rostarinarina@gmail.com Central of Health Training, Public Health Offce West Java, Indonesia, Jl. Pasteur No.31, Pasir Kaliki, Kec. Cicendo, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat 40171