Self-care key to curbing Nigeria’s rising disease burden — Experts
… Say hospitals can’t cope if Nigerians ignore prevention, rational drug useBy Chioma Obinna As Nigeria battles a growing burden of chronic and non-communicable diseases, health experts have called for an urgent shift from hospital-centred healthcare to preventive self-care, warning that the country’s health system and household finances cannot withstand the rising cost of treating preventable illnesses.
According to him, self-care rests on five foundations, nutrition, physical activity, mental health, rational use of medicines and risk avoidance.
The pharmacist further called for mental health to be integrated into school and workplace programmes, describing a healthy mind as “the engine of all other self-care.
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