Self Care Month : Self-care recognizes individuals as active agents in managing their own health, whether for preventing or managing diseases; performing health checks, health education and promotion, rehabilitation and recovery, sexual health and much more. Self-care interventions are a necessary addition and component of high quality and human rights based primary health care, delivered within the broader healthcare system.24th June is the start of Self-Care Month at WHO, leading up to Self-Care Day on 24th July. As well as tips to improve your health, new guidelines will be launched during the month, showing how health systems can promote self-care interventions and advance health and well-being for all.
The health sector has a responsibility to ensure that self-care expands equity and healthcare access.
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Key Facts about Self Care
- Self-care health interventions include drugs, devices, diagnostics and digital products that are provided fully or partially outside of formal health services.
- People and caregivers choose self-care health interventions for convenience or choice, or to avoid health systems due to stigma, lack of access, or lack of quality.
- Before using a self-care health intervention it is important to have evidence that it does no harm at the individual or population level. Unsafe use of unregulated or substandard products can be harmful.
- Self-care can allow health providers to serve a greater number of patients, improve progress towards universal health coverage, and reach people in humanitarian crises.
What are self-care health interventions and who uses them?
Self-care health interventions are evidence-based, quality drugs, devices, diagnostics and/or digital products which can be provided fully or partially outside of formal health services and can be used with or without the direct supervision of health care personnel. For example, self-injectable contraception, HPV self-sampling kits or HIV self-tests.
There are interventions that users can have good knowledge of and feel comfortable using independently from the outset. Other interventions need to be provided with more guidance and support before they can be accepted and used independently. Self-care health interventions should be linked to the health system and supported by it, to ensure health system accountability.
The users of self-care health interventions are individuals and caregivers for dependent people. They might choose these interventions for positive reasons, which may include convenience, cost, empowerment, a better fit with values or daily lifestyles, or the intervention may provide the desired options and choice. However, they might also opt for self-care health interventions to avoid the health system due to lack of quality (e.g. stigma from providers) or lack of access (e.g. in humanitarian settings). Self-care health interventions fulfil a particularly important role in these situations, as the alternative might be that people don’t access health services at all.
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