Thematic Analysis of Patient Empowerment in Medicine: A Survey of Literature
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.58932/MULE0055Keywords:
Empowerment, health systems, patient centered care, nurse satisfaction, leadership, organizational cultureAbstract
This paper evokes theoretical research grounded on literature review of studies that exist from 2020 to 2025 on the effects of empowerment into healthcare systems viewed through three primary lenses: patients, professionals, and organizations, healthcare empowerment is more and more recognized as a significant driver of outcomes, professional satisfaction, and organizational effectiveness. Proposing an investment intervention that links empowerment to the advantages of self-care, treatment compliance, work satisfaction, innovation, and system responsiveness, it has a thematic integration of results. Implementing empowerment is difficult, especially when there are supportive societal and cultural structural components lacking. If all else is equal, the research underlying this essay suggests that in order to genuinely transform the idea of empowerment, institutionalization through psychological, structural, and cultural mechanisms across systems is necessary.
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