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Contextualizing Patient Empowerment

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The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment

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Abstract

This chapter provides a contextualization of patient empowerment, emphasizing its importance in shaping the healthcare service system of the future. A relational interpretation of patient empowerment is embraced. Patient empowerment initiatives are claimed to rely on the establishment of a co-creating partnership between the patients and the healthcare professionals. From this point of view, patient empowerment is argued to be realized through four main phases: (1) patient enablement; (2) patient activation; (3) patient engagement; and (4) patient involvement. Sticking to such a relational interpretation of patient empowerment, it is maintained that the healthcare organizations themselves should be empowered in order to achieve the full potential of patient empowerment initiatives. In light of these arguments, a recipe for effective patient empowerment initiatives is suggested.

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