The global self-care industry is coming of age.
WHO Support A Game-Changer For Emerging Global Self-Care Movement, Resolution 'Likely'
Working alongside the consumer healthcare industry, the Self-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU) is helping to build a global self-care movement that makes a World Health Organization resolution "very likely" in the next few years, says director Austen El-Osta.
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