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The patient empowerment concept, a recent outgrowth of the natural health movement, asserts that to be truly healthy, people must bring about changes in their social situations and in the environment that influences their lives, not only in their personal behavior.
According to advocates of the natural health movement, the following are key tenets of patient empowerment:
- Patients cannot be forced to follow a lifestyle dictated by others.
- Preventive medicine requires patient empowerment for it to be effective.
- Patients as consumers have the right to make their own choices and the ability to act on them.
See also
External links
- Moynihan R, Smith R. Too much medicine? British Medical Journal. 2002 Apr 13; 324(7342): 859-60. PMID 11950716
- Patient Power LLC U.S. leader in online audio and video programs for patients hosted by Andrew Schorr, a medical journalist and 14-year leukemia survivor. Patient Power's reliable resources connect, educate, and empower patients to take a proactive role in their healthcare.
- Every Patient's Advocate provides tools and information to help patients become empowered, and is provided by Trisha Torrey, the expert in patient empowerment for About.com, and the author of a patient empowerment how-to book called You Bet Your Life! The 10 Mistakes Every Patient Makes (How to Fix Them to Get the Health Care You Deserve).
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