Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care: Overview

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Self-care empowers consumers and helps control health care costs. Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care provides people with easy access to actionable information on more than 300 of the most common, costly health conditions.

Learn how the Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care Helps Your Employees Make Better Health Care Usage Decisions

Self-care books are a proven winner in educating people to make better health care decisions that help control health care costs. Organizations have achieved cost savings that amount to a 2:1 return on investment using a self-care book alone. These studies show that sound information can reduce unnecessary visits to health care providers, and can help people avoid costly health complications by knowing when to seek medical help before a medical condition becomes serious.

Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care offers advice on when to seek medical help and when to practice self-care, with practical guidance on how to manage more than 300 of the most common, costly health conditions that account for the majority of sick days, doctor visits and workers compensation claims.

The sixth edition of Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care provides updated content on medications and treatment options for a variety of medical conditions, including:

Tips on how to protect yourself during a pandemic
Topics including H1N1 flu, thyroid disorders, and anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Completely revised cancer section, which includes risks, symptoms and screenings to help detect cancer early
New adult and pediatric immunization guidelines, including the shingles vaccine and cervical cancer vaccine
Easy to learn "hands only" CPR for adults
New regulations on herbal and dietary supplements
Lifestyle management, healthy cooking tips and more

This user-friendly, symptom-driven book is specifically designed to provide actionable information to:

Prevent illness and disease through healthy behaviors
Better manage chronic conditions
Self-treat common injuries with appropriate first-aid techniques

Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care offers key engagement tool

Our "self-care-first" format lists self-care tips before medical help guidelines within each condition and highlights self-care sections within a tinted area that provide unique, cutting-edge information that you won't find in most other books. Many of these educational sidebars come from our Mayo specialty experts.

A key engagement tool featured in the book is our "Ready, Check, Go!" tool, which teaches readers how to use the book and focuses them on key self-care issues. The Ready, Check, Go icon points readers to a checklist of questions at the front of the book that encourages immediate action on key health issues and directs readers to a page within the Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care book where they can find more information on that particular topic.

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