Abstract
There has been increasing interest in self-care as a potential role-player in health care provision. Existing knowledge about self-care however, is regarded as insufficient, and such knowledge is especially relevant when governments plan to support self-care development programmes. A survey on self-care among whites, blacks and coloureds in the Free State also focused on preventive self-care, and large differences were found between the three groups. Due to several factors, a uniform self-care development programme for all population groups in South Africa, will not be viable.
Highlights
Degenerative diseases with a concomitant knowledge about self-care decrease in acute-infective conditions
A survey on self-care among whites, blacks andcoloureds in the Free Slate (b) The cost crisis experienced by all formal focused on preventive self-care, health care systems
Different ethnic groups often arc characterized by distinctive cultural values and beliefs, which arc among other things, reflected in their health and illness behaviour
Summary
Sincc the mid 1970’s the professional health sector began to relinquish its traditional opposition to self-care, due to the realization. Such a data base is above all essential when governments have made policy decisions regarding the promotion of self-care This is the case in South Africa, as evidenced by the pronouncement of the Minister of Health and Population Development on 14 May 1990: "'1110 health service should be preventive and prom otive and stim ulate sclf-carc in the community, which has to take responsibility for its own health." As part of a broader project of (he IISKC on affordable social security, a study was undertaken during 1989 to establish the nature and extent of existing sc lf-c arc p attern s in three Free State com munities (Van Zyl-Schalckamp 1990). This was considered necessary as the researcher, bei ng whi te hersel f, lacked in-depth knowledge of black and coloured communities and wished to avoid unwarranted conclusions
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