I've been looking for articles relating to being responsible for your own individual health. While there are a lot of aspects involved (ie. if health care infrastructure/policy etc aren't in place, are people in a position to be responsible for their own health?) I found this article to be interesting.
With many people able to use the internet to find health knowledge, is this information making them health informed or health empowered? How do we as professionals enable our patients/clients to become health empowered with the information we give them rather than just informed. Being empowered allows people to feel some control over their personal situation, rather than waiting for things to happen to them. Interesting article, and very relevant to me in the dental field when I'm trying to find ways to make information meaningful and relevant (how many times do you want to be told 'you really should floss you know!' before you ignore me?!) to create real change and empowerment in my patients.
Informed Citizen and Empowered Citizen in Health: Results from a European Survey
Santana, S., Lausen, B., Bujnowska-Fedak, M., Chronaki, C., Prokosch, H., & Wynn, R. (2011). Informed citizen and empowered citizen in health: results from an european survey. BMC Fam Pract.,12(20), Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101118/pdf/1471-2296-12-20.pdf
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