About

About Australian Self-Care Alliance

The Australian Self-Care Alliance is a collaboration between healthcare consumers, health promotion charities, policy experts and industry partners that promotes the adoption of self-care and its implementation as a core element of all aspects of physical and mental health services and policies for Australia.

Activities we undertake include:

Promotion

Promoting evidence-based self-care for health capability and activities among the Australian population.

Policy Development

Encouraging the adoption and development of policies throughout the healthcare system that enable self-care for health capability and promote activities which are influential in the development of self-care at the population level.

Support

Promoting self-care support through health services and within socioeconomically disadvantaged communities through preventative health strategies and enhanced primary care capabilities.

Education

Developing, disseminating, and promoting sustained information and education about self-care for better health among the healthcare workforce in Australia.

Collaboration

Facilitating collaboration among healthcare consumers, healthcare professionals, allied health practitioners, health system administrators, health promotion charities and healthcare insurance and industry groups involved in the provision of self-care services.

Research & Development

Investing and promoting research and development to support the provision of evidence-based self-care education, consumer support and service provision.