You as an individual, family or business can engage in a range of
activities with the intention of improving or maintaining health,
preventing disease, managing conditions, and restoring health.

Encompassing a broad spectrum of behaviour, self-care includes
all health decisions consumers make for themselves and their
families to maintain a good level of physical and mental health.

These include:
•maintaining physical fitness and good health to prevent disease
•treating and preventing illnesses using nutritional supplementation
•managing one’s health after discharge from hospital.

Self-care may be used alone (exercising to reduce back pain), or may
be used in collaboration with professional care to treat an illness such as
diabetes,obesity or hypertension to prevent serious consequences.