Patient empowerment
Bravo! That is the most appropriate term.
"Autonomisthe patient’s constitution"
- Short form: empowerment, n.f.
- Area: HEALTH AND MEDICINE.
- Definition: The process by which a patient is led to strengthen his capacity for decision-making and action in order to acquire a better autonomy in the management of his health.
- Note: Patient empowerment, which improves the patient’s ability to interact with the healthcare professional, does not result in a transfer of responsibility from the professional to the patient.
- See also: self-taught health, self-management of health, therapeutic education, active patient.
- Foreign equivalent: empowerment.
- Source: Official Journal of 16 May 2019.
How to translate "empowerlie"?
The notion ofempowerment of the patient, of recent appearance, is part of a series of terms revealing the evolution of the relationships between caregivers and patients and the role they have gradually acquired. Thus, when the patient takes a more active part, we speak of “active patient” (term published in 2017) ; the patient, in order to better manage a condition, benefits from a “therapeutic education” (term published in 2008) and his ability to access medical information is the “ self-taught (health)” (see this term published in 2019); it may also implement the “ self-management of [his] health” (see this term published in 2019; cf. 14.).
But when it comes toempowerment Does this mean that the roles are reversed and that the patient takes over the practitioner? This is not the case and it is necessary to avoid misunderstandings. Rather than resorting to the “impassable” layer that we sometimes encounter or searching for a literal translation, since we want to designate the strengthening of one’s capacity for decision and action – the fact of gaining one’s autonomy – which improves one’s ability to interact with a health professional, it is enough simply to speak of the“patient empowerment”.
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Prefaced by three ministers (Culture, Solidarity and Health, Work, Employment and Insertion), this new edition of the Vocabulary of Health and Medicine, rich in 247 terms, reflects the progress of science and the evolution of behaviours in the health field, changes which do not go without the enrichment of the language necessarily accompanying the appearance of new realities and new concepts.
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