Self Care

Self Care and U

Self-care is determined by specific aspects of the person and external aspects that depend on it, these determinants are protective factors related to health, as well as with the risk factors, which generate, as appropriate, or risk friendly practices health. Health staff is responsible for the promotion of self-care in people with both healthy living testimony as to education, as a tool for people to choose health-friendly practices.

To care for the life and health requires the development of personal skills, to opt for healthy choices, which is one of the five components of health promotion PS, established at the First International Conference on PS, Ottawa Canada, where he said:

"Favors promoting personal and social development to the extent to provide information on the care, health education to make informed decisions and refine the skills necessary for life in this way increase the options available to people to exercise greater control over their health and the social and natural environment, and so chooses everything conducive to health. "

Strategies and mechanisms to develop these skills relate to self-management, education and information and self-care, mediated communication.

Personal skills determined to live the lifestyle of people and how they are cared for. The term 'lifestyle' refers to the way of life and personal patterns of behavior, which are determined by social, cultural and personal; equals attitudes, habits and practices of individuals or families, which can positively or negatively influence on our health.

CARE among all (we care):

The care among all is called collective self refers to the actions that are planned and developed in cooperation between the members of a community, family or group, who is seeking a physical and emotional and social solidarity, for example., The waste disposal, water treatment group, the rational use of the services available to health care, achieving guards, among others, in pursuit of the common good.

Self care (I care):

It is for the individual self is shaped by all measures taken by yourself, as self-care manager. Put another way, one is to look for their health and give good life.

Self-care refers to the daily practices and decisions on them, which makes a person, family or group to take care of their health, such practices are 'skills' learned through a lifetime of continuous use, which are used by free choice, in order to strengthen or restore health and prevent disease, they respond to the survivability and customary practices of the culture to which one belongs.

Among the self-care practices are: adequate food needs, hygiene, stress management, social skills to establish relationships and resolve interpersonal issues, exercise and physical activity required, ability to control and reduce the consumption of drugs, monitoring for health requirements, safety behaviors, recreation and leisure management, dialogue, favorable adaptations to changes in context and self-care practices in disease processes ...

 "Anything that a person can learn, leads to changes in one of the following three areas of behavior: cognitive, affective and psycho motor learning all means to procure the development of a form of behavior, either because they arise or change behaviors, affections or psycho motor skills in the person "

Self-care is an inherent function of the human and essential to the life of all living beings with whom they interact, is the growth of the person in everyday life, in every experience as a caregiver for himself and those who are part of their environment . Because of its great potential to positively impact on how people live, self care constitutes an important strategy for the protection of health and prevention of disease.

Principles for Self Care

• Self-care is an act of life that allows people to become subjects of their own actions. Therefore, a process for the individual volunteer with itself.  
• Self-care involves an individual responsibility and a philosophy of life linked to experiences in everyday life.
• Self-care is supported by a formal system such as health and informal social support. 
• The self is social in character, since it implies a degree of knowledge and development of knowledge and results interrelationships.  
• When performing self-care practices, whether protective or preventive purposes, people always developed with the knowledge that will improve their level of health.  
• To have self requires a degree of personal development, mediated by a continued strengthening of self-concept, self-control, self-esteem, self-acceptance, and resilience.