Patient empowerment
The patient empowerment concept, a recent outgrowth of the natural health movement, assemus 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.Proponents of this empowerment model urge:
- that patients not be forced to follow a lifestyle dictated by others;
- that preventive medicine requires patient empowerment for it to be effective;
- that patients as consumers ought to have the right to make their own choices and the ability to act on them.
