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This Joint Resolution officially designates September of each year as "Self-Care Awareness Month" in New Jersey, aiming to highlight the importance of self-care practices for individual and public health. Self-care is defined as a continuous habit of making healthy lifestyle choices, maintaining good hygiene, preventing illness, avoiding unhealthy behaviors, monitoring one's health, and knowing when to seek professional medical help or when self-treatment is appropriate, all of which contribute to well-being and stress reduction. The resolution emphasizes that when New Jersey residents practice self-care, it leads to improved self-esteem and health, reduces healthcare visits and costs, and strengthens the state's healthcare system, recognizing this as a shared effort among consumers, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and regulators.

Health and Social Services

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