The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care

Margaret Riley, Metapsychology Online Reviews I [...] found the patient case studies presented throughout the book to be a fabulous way to introduce actual people, with actual, and indeed common concerns, and very human behaviors. These people were excellent at personifying difficult concepts and patient care challenges. [...] The book provides a truly holistic approach and a thorough provision of information on a variety of subjects that truly comprise the possibility of "the patient as agent of health and health care.

Tanya Macleod, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice I strongly recommend this book to health professionals, policymakers, bioethicists, academics, and patients who have an interest in patient education and engagement, shared decision making, alternative models of health care, chronic disease management, and/or end of life care.

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Adjunct Professor of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Patient-Centered Health-who, what, and how? Chapter 2 - Patient-Centered Care or Patient-Centered Health? Chapter 3 - Respecting and promoting patient autonomy in research, end-of-life care, and chronic illness care Chapter 4 - Escaping the autonomy vs objectivity trap by re-personalizing the clinical problem Chapter 5 - Health-related Quality of Life as a Goal for Clinical Care Chapter 6 - Health as the Capacity for Action Chapter 7 - On the role of health behavior in 21st Century health Chapter 8 - Repersonalizing health behavior as therapeutic action: advancing from activated patient to autonomous patient Chapter 9 - Finding health between personal and disease processes Chapter 10 - Seeking the roots of health and action in biological autonomy Chapter 11 - Make the patient into the true customer for health care Chapter 12 - Patient-centered health is produced by patients References Index