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Descriptor English: Self Care
Descriptor Spanish: Autocuidado
Descriptor autocuidados
Entry term(s) autoayuda
Scope note: Cuidado de uno mismo cuando se está enfermo o realización de acciones positivas y adopción de conductas con objeto de prevenir las enfermedades.
Descriptor Portuguese: Autocuidado
Descriptor French: Autosoins
Entry term(s): Auto-thérapie
Self-care
Soins auto-administrés
Soins autoadministrés
Soins de base
Tree number(s): E02.900
I03.050.563
N02.421.784.680
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012648
Scope note: Caring for self when ill or positive actions and adopting behaviors to prevent illness.
Annotation: = care prescribed by MD or generated by person himself & includes care for self, family or friends; differentiate from SELF MEDICATION (medication not prescribed by MD) and SELF ADMINISTRATION (admin of medication prescribed by MD or self admin of substances by exper animals)
Allowable Qualifiers: AE effets indésirables
CL classification
EC économie
ES éthique
HI histoire
IS instrumentation
MO mortalité
MT méthodes
PX psychologie
SN statistiques et données numériques
ST normes
TD tendances
VE médecine vétérinaire
DeCS ID: 13031
Unique ID: D012648
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1981/01/01
Date of Entry: 1980/05/19
Revision Date: 2018/06/01
Autosoins - Preferred
Concept UI M0019610
Preferred term Autosoins
Entry term(s) Auto-thérapie
Self-care
Soins auto-administrés
Soins autoadministrés
Soins de base



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