WHO guideline on self-care interventions for health and well-being / World Health Organization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

World Health Organization, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-care, Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 156 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : World Health Organization, [2021]

Contents:

Intro

Preface

FOREWORD

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Document Overview and Navigation Tools

Executive summary

Introduction

1.1 Background

1.2 Objectives

1.3 Living guideline approach

1.4 Definition of self-care and self-care interventions

1.5 Scope

1.6 Target audience

1.7 Values and preferences

1.8 Guideline development and compilation process

Essential strategies for creating and maintaining an enabling environment for self-care

2.1 Background

2.2 People-centred approach for health and well-being

2.3 Key principles

2.4 Safe and supportive enabling environment

2.5 Characteristics of the enabling environment

2.6 Places of access to self-care interventions

2.7 Accountability

Recommendations and key considerations

3.1 Improving antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care

3.2 Providing high-quality services for family planning, including infertility services

3.3 Eliminating unsafe abortion

3.4 Combating sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), reproductive tract infections, cervical cancer and other gynaecological morbidities

3.5 Promoting sexual health

3.6 Noncommunicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases and diabetes

Implementation and programmatic considerations for self-care interventions

4.1 Background

4.2 Human rights, gender equality and equity considerations

4.3 Financing and economic considerations

4.4 Training needs of health workers

4.5 Population-specific implementation considerations

4.6 Digital health interventions

4.7 Environmental considerations

Developing the research agenda for self-care interventions

5.1 Research on self-care and self-care interventions contributing to the World Health Organization's triple-billion goals.

5.2 Towards an appropriate approach to research on self-care interventions

5.3 Specific research considerations to strengthen the evidence base

5.4 Centring human rights and equity in self-care interventions

5.5 Ensuring the meaningful engagement of communities in research

5.6 Knowledge translation for self-care interventions

Dissemination, applicability and updating of the guideline and recommendations

6.1 Dissemination

6.2 Applicability

6.3 Updating the guideline

Annex 1. External experts and WHO staff involved in the preparation of this guideline

Annex 2. Methodology: guideline development process

Annex 3. Scoping review: WHO self-care definitions

Annex 4. Glossary

Annex 5. Summary of declarations of interest and the management of conflicts of interest

Annex 6. Priority questions and outcomes

Annex 7. Published reviews

Annex 8. Guideline Development Group judgements on new recommendations.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title page (NCBI, viewed November 3, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references.