Description: Patient As Agent of Health and Health Care, Hardcover by Sullivan, Mark D., ISBN 0195386582, ISBN-13 9780195386585, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means. We must understand patients as subjects who know things and as agents who do things. Bioethics has urged us to respect patient autonomy, but it has understood
this autonomy narrowly in terms of informed consent for treatment choice. In chronic illness care, the ethical and clinical challenge is to not just respect, but to promote patient autonomy, understood broadly as the patients overall agency or capacity for action. The primary barrier to patient
action in chronic illness is not clinicians dictating treatment choice, but clinicians dictating the nature of the clinical problem. The patients perspective on clinical problems is now often added to the objective-disease perspective of clinicians as health-related quality of life (HRQL). But HRQL
is merely a hybrid transitional concept between disease-focused and health-focused goals for clinical care. Truly patient-centered care requires a sense of patient-centered health that is perceived by the patient and defined in terms of the patients vital goals. Patient action is an essential means
to this patient-centered health, as well as an essential component of this health. This action is not extrinsically motivated adherence, but intrinsically motivated striving for vital goals. Modern pathophysiological medicine has trouble understanding both patient action and health. The self-moving
and self-healing capacities of patients can be understood only if we understand their roots in the biological autonomy of organisms. Taking the patient as the primary perceiver and producer of health has the following policy implications: 1] Care will become patient-centered only when the patient is
the primary customer of care. 2] Professional health services are not the principal source of population health, and may lead to clinical, social and cultural iatrogenic injury. 3] Social justice demands equity in health capability more than equal access to health services.
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Book Title: Patient As Agent of Health and Health Care
Number of Pages: 456 Pages
Publication Name: Patient As Agent of Health and Health Care : Autonomy in Patient-Centered Care for Chronic Conditions
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Ethics, Diseases
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 24.8 Oz
Subject Area: Medical
Item Length: 6.1 in
Author: Mark D. Sullivan
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
