Person-Centricity: Promoting Self-Determination and Responsibility in Health and Health Care.

Person-Centricity: Promoting Self-Determination and Responsibility in Health and Health Care. Mil Med. 2018 Nov 01;183(suppl_3):198-203 Authors: Robbins DA, Mattison JE, Dorrance KA Abstract The transition from a system focused on the delivery of sickness and illness services to one with a heavy focus of helping people become and remain healthier requires a major shift in how we view the patient and person. The health care system attempts to magically transform us from persons to patients in a context of sickness and disease, in need of medical procedures and interventions. Those few hours we spend a year in formal medical and health care contexts do not define us in the broader life space. We contend that "person-centricity" is more reflective of the life space and as such better supports that shift than do models of consumer or patient empowerment, centeredness, engagement, or activation. "Person-centricity" represents the complexity of how individuals make decisions including health and health care decisions, within the broader context of their lives, and accurately addresses the needs and aspirations of people throughout their life journey. This is not simply a shift in semantics, but an entirely new paradigm that frees the individual from assuming and succumbing to the passive and subservient patient role and dramatically changes the way in which we view ourselves and interact with the health care system.The changes required to ...
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research