Cares in the Age of Communication: Health Education and Healthy Lifestyles.

Abstract

El Cuidado de las personas en el tiempo de las comunicaciones, especialmente en tiempos de pandemia.

Traditionally, health professionals have been a source of reference for knowledge related to health and illness. If someone had a problem, the only solution was to put it in the hands of those who knew about it and listen to them. From the self-care point of view, this system leaves very little space for people to take care of their needs themselves, however, the evolution of society, mainly in the Western world, has brought overwhelming ease of access to information and education. In a major part of the world, everyone today is sufficiently educated and has easy enough access to information through the media or the internet, especially through social networks, to be able to take charge of managing a certain part of their problems or needs themselves, and even when these exceed their capacities, to be able to question the alternatives or solutions that health professionals can offer them.