BIOSOFT MASTER HELP FILE
This handbook contains all the medical terms used in our programs with their meanings and the application. These terms are important. They are used for several reasons : 1. Accuracy 2. Brevity 3. Acceptance 4. Agreement.
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SelfcareSERVICES All our services have three common overarching principles : MEDICAL SELFCARE, EMPOWERMENT AND ENGAGEMENT. Medical Self Care : WHO says the medical selfcare is : Self-care is the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and to cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health-care provider (WHO 2019, Hatch et al 1983)
Key facts extracted from WHO website as relevant for what we are doing (WHO 2021) :
WHO concept : Tools are required to support medical selfcare. 247eConsult Tools : Apps for many medical selfcare requirements : dieting, exercises, vaccines, symptom checkers, pregnancy and newborn care,
WHO concept : Tools are required to support coping with illness and disability 247eConsult Tools : Apps for Illness Automation System - see details below
WHO concept : 4.3 billion people have no access to essential health care services 247eConsult Tools : Provision of free apps in all the three languages spoken in Sri Lanka
WHO concept : Looming global shortage of health workers 247eConsult Tools : Use of ICT and training and use of locally available resources for healthcare delivery
WHO concept : 1 : 8700 hr ratio of physician care to medical self care 247eConsult Tools : Availability of services 24/7 is a given in ICT
WHO concept : Medical selfcare is sought for convenience, confidentiality, cost, discrimination 247eConsult Tools : All our tools achieve these requirements
WHO concept : Medical selfcare promote persons' active participation in their own healthcare and push then towards greater self-determination, self-efficacy, autonomy and engagement in health. 247eConsult Tools : All our tools are designed to achieve these ends
WHO concept : Sustained adoption of quality, evidence-based self-care interventions reduce deaths and diseases, improve the health and well being 247eConsult Tools : All our tools are designed to achieve these ends
Hatch S, Kickbusch I, editors; World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. Self-help and health in Europe: new approaches in health care. Albany (NY): World Health Organization Publications Center USA; 1983.
WHO 2019. WHO consolidated guideline on self-care interventions for health: sexual and reproductive health and rights. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. WHO 2021 - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/self-care-health-interventionsy Accessed 12/05/2021 7L18 PM | ||