Handbook
Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence
Organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs.
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Definition
Organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs.
Coverage role
Health questions recur throughout life and often require coordination, comprehension, monitoring, and safe escalation rather than diagnosis by the system.
Scope
Included
- health-information organization
- care-level routing with approved rules
- appointment preparation
- care-plan explanation
- medication-list administration
- follow-up planning
- monitoring
Excluded and non-goals
- diagnosis
- prescribing or changing medicines
- replacing a clinician
- interpreting tests outside approved scope
- guaranteeing safety
Boundary rules
- Route to life.health-navigation-self-care when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.health-navigation-self-care.organize_health_information |
Organize Health Information | Build a concise timeline of symptoms, history, medicines, allergies, care, tests, and functional impact. |
capability.life.health-navigation-self-care.recognize_care_level |
Recognize Care Level | Apply approved local rules to distinguish emergency, urgent, routine, pharmacy, and self-care routes. |
capability.life.health-navigation-self-care.prepare_appointment |
Prepare Appointment | Prioritize concerns, questions, goals, records, and medication information for a clinical encounter. |
capability.life.health-navigation-self-care.explain_care_plan |
Explain Care Plan | Translate clinician-provided instructions into plain language without changing the plan. |
capability.life.health-navigation-self-care.manage_medication_list |
Manage Medication List | Maintain user-reported medicines, schedules, prescriber, purpose, and reconciliation questions. |
capability.life.health-navigation-self-care.plan_prevention_followup |
Plan Prevention Followup | Track clinician- or authority-defined appointments, monitoring, screening, and review dates. |
capability.life.health-navigation-self-care.monitor_and_escalate |
Monitor And Escalate | Define observations and approved thresholds for contact or urgent care. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.health_summary |
context_profile | Health Summary for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.symptom_timeline |
timeline | Symptom Timeline for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A time-ordered dependency record with deadlines, ownership, buffers, contingencies, and triggers for live verification. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.care_route_decision |
decision | Care Route Decision for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.appointment_brief |
brief | Appointment Brief for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.care_plan_summary |
context_profile | Care Plan Summary for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.medication_and_allergy_list |
ledger | Medication And Allergy List for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.monitoring_log |
ledger | Monitoring Log for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.prevention_and_follow_up_plan |
plan | Prevention And Follow Up Plan for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
artifact.life.health-navigation-self-care.health_escalation_record |
decision | Health Escalation Record for Health Navigation and Self-Care Support Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of organize health information, support informed self-care and care navigation, prepare clinical encounters, and recognize urgent or professional-care needs. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.health-navigation-self-care.structured_history |
structured history | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
method.life.health-navigation-self-care.approved_triage_tables |
approved triage tables | Use when potential harm must be detected, prioritized, contained, routed, and recorded without exceeding available authority. | Avoid delaying emergency or safeguarding routes, asking for unnecessary sensitive detail, or giving instructions that increase exposure, destroy evidence, or conflict with official guidance. |
method.life.health-navigation-self-care.teach_back |
teach-back | Use when meaning, participation, trust, accessibility, or action depends on adapting a message and confirming shared understanding. | Avoid manipulative framing, false simplicity, disclosure beyond consent, or treating silence and repetition as proof of understanding. |
method.life.health-navigation-self-care.medication_reconciliation_support |
medication reconciliation support | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
method.life.health-navigation-self-care.monitor_plan_review_loops |
monitor-plan-review loops | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
method.life.health-navigation-self-care.person_centered_life_course_framing |
person-centered life-course framing | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.health-navigation-self-care.01_no_diagnosis_or_medicine_change_is_presented_as_establishe |
No diagnosis or medicine change is presented as established without a qualified source. | escalate |
invariant.life.health-navigation-self-care.02_urgent_red_flags_override_cost_or_convenience |
Urgent red flags override cost or convenience. | escalate |
invariant.life.health-navigation-self-care.03_routing_records_jurisdiction_source_effective_date_and_unc |
Routing records jurisdiction, source, effective date, and uncertainty. | escalate |
invariant.life.health-navigation-self-care.04_care_plan_explanation_preserves_clinician_instructions |
Care-plan explanation preserves clinician instructions. | escalate |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.diagnostic, general.epistemic-evidence, general.decision, general.communication-explanatory, general.temporal, general.practical-procedural
Life intelligences: life.personal-organization-administration, life.mental-health-help-seeking, life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems, life.sleep-recovery-energy, life.caregiving-ageing-end-of-life
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
who.life_course |
concept_definition, health_or_safety_boundary, population_guidance | True |
who.selfcare |
concept_definition, health_or_safety_boundary, population_guidance | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: critical
- Possible emergency symptoms.
- New severe persistent worsening or unexplained symptoms.
- Medicine, abnormal-test, pregnancy, abuse, neglect, or inability-to-care-for-self concerns.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/health-navigation-self-care.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7