El autocuidado y su papel en la promoción de la salud

ABSTRACT: This paper reviews historically the Western practices and believes concerning care, taking into account the importance of self-care in the promotion of life and welfare of human beings. This may explain, in part, nowadays care practices as well as understand meaning of health promotion and...

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Autores:
Uribe Jaramillo, Tulia María
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
1999
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/4792
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10495/4792
Palabra clave:
Autocuidado
Promoción de la salud
Calidad de vida
Self care
Health promotion
Quality of life
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)
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Summary:ABSTRACT: This paper reviews historically the Western practices and believes concerning care, taking into account the importance of self-care in the promotion of life and welfare of human beings. This may explain, in part, nowadays care practices as well as understand meaning of health promotion and face the responsibility of it. Then, in the framework of new approaches about health and health promotion, it proposes a new of assuming self-care from a human point of view as a basic strategy to promote human's’ life and welfare, according to their cultural characteristics in ethnics, social class, and vital cycle.