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PubMed1979

Self-care.

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PubMed1978

The relevance of health education to health activation and self-care.

Contemporary medical care is a valuable but incomplete approach to health. The individual is coming to be recognized by many providers and consumers of health care alike as the primary health care resource, and individual behaviors and lifestyles are now recognized as the principle determinants of health. A new trend toward health activation is emerging which emphasizes self-care and self-help. This movement is transforming the traditionally passive patient into an active, informed and effective participant in health care and health promotion. The recent interest in programs designed to enhance self-care skills is extremely relevant to health education in the schools and the community. The prime justification of health education has traditionally been one of promoting individual responsibility for generating and maintaining health. Integration of health education concepts may have an overall effect of enhancing health in the United States.

Activities of Daily Living↗
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Integration of Genetic Information to Improve Brain Age Gap Estimation Models in the UK Biobank.

Neurodegeneration occurs when the body's central nervous system becomes impaired as a person ages, which can happen at an accelerated pace. Neurodegeneration impairs quality of life, affecting essential functions, including memory and the ability to self-care. Genetics play an important role in neurodegeneration and longevity. Brain age gap estimation (BrainAGE) is a biomarker that quantifies the difference between a machine learning model-predicted biological age of the brain and the true chronological age for healthy subjects; however, a large portion of the variance remains unaccounted for in these models, attributed to individual differences. This study focuses on predicting the BrainAGE more accurately, aided by genetic information associated with neurodegeneration. To achieve this, a BrainAGE model was developed based on MRI measures, and then the associated genes were determined with a Genome-Wide Association Study. Subsequently, genetic information was incorporated into the models. The incorporation of genetic information yielded improvements in the model performances by 7% to 12%, showing that the incorporation of genetic information can notably reduce unexplained variance. This work helps to define new ways of determining persons susceptible to neurological aging decline and reveals genes for targeted precision medicine therapies.

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PubMed1977

Research and demonstration issues in self-care: measuring the decline of medicocentrism.

Emergence of consumer health self-care is a reflection of the increased commitment of health professionals to patient education, growing consumer awareness that they are capable of sophisticated self-help, and a variety of social, economic and technological currents. These currents are reviewed and a survey of existing medical self-care programs is summarized. The attempts and potentials to evaluate these programs are critically examined. A number of important research and demonstration issues are raised including the determination of behavioral outcomes, technical limits, and manpower implications. A federal program of replicative studies on such issues would provide substantive knowledge in the self-care field, generalizable to the larger field of health education, but the hazards of undermining the voluntaristic and non-establishment character of the programs must be considered in designing evaluative studies.

Asthma↗
PubMed1979

Self care for colds: a cost-effective alternative to upper respiratory infection management.

A Cold Self-Care (CSC) Center was established in a prepaid ambulatory care setting serving 21,500 subscribers and their dependents. After CSC establishment, a decrease in visits to practitioners for common colds was demonstrated. The operating cost ratio of an outpatient visit as compared to a CSC visit was 14.7/1. Savings over a two-year period are estimated at over $46,000, representing an average estimated ratio of $.09 cost per dollar saved per member per year.

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