Self-Care Week is an annual
national awareness week that focuses on establishing support for self-care
across communities, families and generations. More needs to be done to support
people to better look after their own health. Empowering individuals to self-care
has many benefits for their short term and long term health and this is
important since people are living longer. Helping people to look after their
own health, and their family’s health also helps to manage demand on health
services.
Self-Care Week provides
people-facing organisations with a focus to hold a targeted campaign to support
people to take care of their health and wellbeing and improve their
understanding of doing so. Self-care messages have a greater impact when they
are being repeated by many voices through different mediums at the same time,
making a greater impact and reaching more of the population.
For more about Self-Care Week, please visit the Self Care
Forum website: http://www.selfcareforum.org/events/self-care-week-resources/
RELATED HEALTH
LIBRARY RESOURCES
For
anyone studying the importance of self-care and its effects, the Health Library
offers numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll
find our most popular items, information on materials recently added to our
collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our
online catalogue
or ask at the counter.
BOOKS
- Supporting people with long term conditions
to self-care: a guide to developing local strategies and good practice / Department of Health, 2006, London :
Department of Health.
- Supporting self-care in primary care / Ruth. Chambers, Gill Wakley and Alison
Blenkinsopp, 2006, Abingdon : Radcliffe.
- Parkinson's disease: a self-care manual / R. K Griffiths and E. H Coene, 2000, Amsterdam:
September Foundation.
- Your health, your way; a guide to long term
conditions and self-care /
Department of Health [Online], 2009, London:
Dept of Health.
- Nurses' guide to teaching diabetes
self-management / Rita G.
Mertig, 2012, 2nd editon, New York : Springer Pub.
- Self-management of long-term health
conditions : a handbook for people with chronic disease / NHS Expert Patients Programme, 2007, Boulder,
Colorado,: Bull Publishing Company.
JOURNALS
- Practical diabetes, Chichester: John Wiley.
[Available as a print journal 2011: vol. 28(5) -. Also available as a Keele ejournal 2000
onwards, & NHS e-journal 2011 - 2013]
- Diabetes care, Alexandria: American
Diabetes Association [Available as a print journal 1989: vol. 12 -. Also available as a Keele ejournal 2000
onwards with a 6 month embargo, & NHS ejournal 2000 onwards with 1 year
embargo]
- Self-Care, Dependent-Care &
Nursing [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2003 onwards]
- Total Health [Available
as a Keele ejournal 1992 – 2010 & NHS ejournal 1995 - 2009]
Access more journals via our Journals
webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
CURRENT AWARENESS
More information and
additional resources about self-care and long term conditions can be found on
our current awareness page: http://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Health_News
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