What is self-management?
Self-Management can be defined as:

Supported self-management is the response of health and social care organisations in terms of the services they put in place to enable people to self-manage.
Self-Care and Self-Management are interchangeable definitions, but most often Self-Management is used in the specific context of the management of long-term health conditions, and Self-Care is used in the wider context for the management of general health conditions.
There is no definitive model for the provision of Self-Management support, but there is a growing consensus for it to meet three key objectives. It must:
- Support both a primary and secondary preventative approach.
- Use evidence-based approaches that support adults to take control over their own health and wellbeing. Examples of these approaches include face-to-face coaching, online support, telephone coaching and small group self care programmes, websites, smart phone applications and peer networks.
- Focus on achieving specific measurable outcomes in relation to behavior change.
Know Your Own Health ensure these objectives are met by providing services and solutions through a single point of access, bringing together all the elements needed to successfully integrate self-management support with clinical pathways.
Reference: Self-Care, Advancing the study & understanding of self-care: The need for an integrated approach to supporting patients who should self-manage (J.Phillips: April 2012)