ProductsMayo Clinic EmbodyHealth Guide to Self-Care: Overview
Teaching More Appropriate Utilization of Health Care Resources for Better Demand Management
Self-care is 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-to-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 EmbodyHealth Guide to Self-Care is a 300-page softcover book that will provide your population and their families with easy access to actionable information on more than 200 of the most common, costly health conditions that account for the majority of:
- Emergency room visits
- Urgent care visits
- Primary care visits
- Nurse line phone calls
- Employee sick days
- Workers' compensation claims
This user-friendly, symptom-driven book is specifically designed to provide actionable information to:
- Prevent illness
- Identify health problems before they can become serious, costly concerns
- Avoid unnecessary primary care and emergency room visits
- Take a more active role in working in partnership with a physician
"Self-Care First" Emphasis
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 Guide to Self-Care book where they can find more information on that particular topic.
