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Purpose of the guideline：
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Self-care is the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health worker. Currently 3.6 billion people – half of the world – lack access to essential health services. WHO recommends self-care interventions for every country and economic setting, as a critical path to reach universal health coverage, promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. Self-care recognises individuals as active agents in managing their own health care, in areas including health promotion; disease prevention and control; self-medication; providing care to dependent persons, and rehabilitation, including palliative care. Self-care interventions are evidence-based, quality tools that support self-care. They include medicines, counselling, diagnostics and/or digital technologies which can be accessed fully or partially outside of formal health services. Depending on the intervention, they can be used with or without the direct supervision of health workers. However, there are currently no Chinese guidelines for self-care interventions to promote health and well-being. The effects and benefits of self-care interventions may vary in different countries, different settings, and different populations, and there is an urgent need to develop Chinese guidelines on self-care interventions for health and well-being to promote the adoption and implementation of self-care interventions and promote individuals' active participation in their own health care. Based on an extensive search of evidence-based evidence and expert recommendations at home and abroad, this guideline has formed the Chinese Guidelines on Self-care Interventions to Promote Health and Well-being, so as to promote the adoption and implementation of self-care interventions and promote individuals' active participation in their own health care. |
