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Empowering patients: issues and strategies.
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Arguing for a perspective that will allow us to address issues pertaining to the notion of empowerment in the lives of patients, generally, as well as those who are marginalized and disadvantaged is argued.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1996-09-01. It has received 204 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social determinants of health & Health care.read more
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Patient empowerment in theory and practice: Polysemy or cacophony?
TL;DR: The analysis of how the term "empowerment" has been used in relation to the care and education of patients with chronic conditions over the past decade revealed a number of guiding principles and values.
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Power and empowerment in nursing: three theoretical approaches.
TL;DR: The uses of the empowerment concept as a framework for nurses' professional growth and development are explored, with empowerment seems likely to provide for an umbrella concept of professional development in nursing.
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Riting" cultural safety within the postcolonial and postnational feminist project: toward new epistemologies of healing.
Joan M. Anderson,JoAnn Perry,Connie Blue,Annette J. Browne,Angela Henderson,Koushambhi Basu Khan,Sheryl Reimer Kirkham,Judith Lynam,Pat Semeniuk,Vicki Smye +9 more
TL;DR: This article explicates the theoretical and methodological issues that came to the forefront in attempts to use this concept in research with different populations in Canada, and discusses how the concept might be rewritten within a critical postcolonial and postnational feminist discourse.
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Moving from information transfer to information exchange in health and health care.
Renee Gravois Lee,Theresa Garvin +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that researchers and practitioners move beyond traditional practices of information transfer (based on a one-way monologue) and toward a more useful and appropriate notion of information exchange ( based on two-way dialogue).
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Customer empowerment and relationship outcomes in healthcare consultations
TL;DR: This study explores whether empowering patient‐physician consultations measured through three patient empowerment dimensions (patient control, patient participation, physician support) enhance patients trust in and commitment to their physician.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics
TL;DR: In this paper, the body's problem with illness is described as a Call for Stories, and a call for stories as a call-for-the-call for stories is presented.
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Chronic illness as biographical disruption
TL;DR: The paper is based on semi-structured interviews with a series of rheumatoid arthritis patients and highlights the resources available to individuals, modes of explanation for pain and suffering, continuities and discontinuities between professional and lay thought, and sources of variation in experience.
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The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition
TL;DR: Based on twenty years of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that diagnosing illness is an art tragically neglected by modern medical training, and presents a compelling case for bridging the gap between patient and doctor.