Self-care interventions offer huge potential to enhance individual agency and reduce health inequities by increasing the availability of accessible, acceptable and affordable health-care options that are in addition to and can complement services and care received at a health-care facility.
The co-endorsers of this statement support collective, coordinated and coherent action among United Nations partners to promote, enable and sustain the paradigm shift in ensuring equitable, evidence-based action on self-care interventions for SRHR.
These actions include efforts to reorient health systems to include self-care interventions as part of the first line of action to advance primary health care, taking into account broader determinants of health and well-being (including social, economic and environmental factors), as well as individual characteristics and behaviours, across the life course. These efforts also aim to strengthen people-centred care to increase the ability of individuals, families and communities to optimize their health as engaged advocates for policies that promote and protect health and well-being, as co-developers of health and social services, and as self-carers and caregivers.
