Self-care
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’s own health after discharge from tertiary health care.
Self-care approaches and activities
Self care has crucial enabling value and unlimited space in developing countries with an overburdened health care system.
Self-care topics include:
- General Fitness Training
- Hygiene
- Life extension
- Nootropics
- Nutrition
- Physical exercise
- Stress management
- Vitamins
See also
External links
http://www.expertpatients.nhs.uk/public/default.aspx
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