Efforts to empower and educate individuals and community for self-care must be viewed as an essential component to achieve health. If practiced effectively, self-care can be an important tool in reducing health care costs and contribute towards reducing expenditures on health.
VHAI developed the document for WHO to provide basic yet vital information to the communities in understanding the concept of self-care and maintaining health. It also seeks to build capacity of community health workers to promote self-care.
