This post highlights the World Health Organization’s guidance on implementing self-care interventions for health and well-being. The document offers key considerations for countries adapting global recommendations to local health systems. It is intended to support national and subnational scale-up of self-care services.

Building upon the latest normative recommendations and good practice statements from the WHO, this guidance includes key considerations to support the introduction and scale-up of self-care interventions. In implementing the global recommendations, countries will need to adapt them to the local context, considering economic conditions and existing health services and facilities. This guidance is intended to assist with that process and is relevant for all settings, so it should be considered as global guidance.

The full guidance is available on the WHO website: WHO publication. A PDF version can be downloaded here: 9789240094888-eng.pdf.