Self-care is personal health maintenance. It is any activity of an individual, family or community, with the intention of improving or restoring health, or treating or preventing disease.
Self-care includes all health decisions people (as individuals or consumers) make for themselves and their families to get and stay physically and mentally fit. Self-care is exercising to maintain physical fitness. It is also eating well, self-medicating, and practicing good hygiene to treat, manage or prevent disease. Self-care is avoiding health hazards such as smoking, and managing one%u2019s own health after discharge from tertiary health care.
Self care has crucial enabling value and unlimited space in developing countries with an overburdened health care system.
Self-care approaches and activities
Self-care topics include:
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The vast body of information available to modern medicine needs to be reviewed to filter and cull information of value to the lay person for effective self care. This information can be assembled and illustrated in a logical sequence by physicians in simple language.
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