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

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.