Health Education and Counseling to enhance the Self-Health Care; A Review of Ayurveda & Modern medical perspectives
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Background: Health education is a ongoing, dynamic, complex and planned teaching-learning process throughout the lifespan and in different settings that is carried out many situations through health professional and client partnership to facilitate and empower the person to promote/initiate lifestyle-related behavioural changes that promote positive health status outcomes. Counselling term covers work with individuals and with relationships which may be developmental, crisis support, psychotherapeutic, guiding or problem-solving. During Prevedic, Vedic period document evidences are having many health educations in Ayurveda were conducted previously. A group of outstanding great rishis gathered together 5,000 years ago on the slopes of the Himalayan Mountains. and discussed the occurrence of great diseases that had arisen and how to deal with them. Objective: To study was the health education and Counselling in Ayurveda & Modern medicine. Method: Search strategy: Literature search of published full research articles in PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, and J-Gate databases between 2020 January to 2025 January reporting the health education and Counselling in Ayurveda & Modern medicine was designed based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews) statement guidelines. A comprehensive search of concepts in health education and counselling included using from Ayurveda & Yoga classics . As well as other screens were focused to ‘The barriers of health education and Counselling in Ayurveda & Modern medicine’. Results: Research Health education & counselling Ayurveda & Modern medicine are empowered towards providing individuals with the knowledge to make decisions about their health issues and well-being. Ayurveda was a more holistic view and considering the mind, body & spirit on “Swastha” which is health of individuals, while modern medicine focused more emphasising on diagnosing & treating the body. Conclusion: Both systems offer unique strengths in health education and counselling, and integrating them can provide a more comprehensive approach to healthcare.
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