Supporting People To Manage Their Health: An Introduction To Patient Activation

In May 2014, the United Kingdom's King's Fund published a paper on patient engagement. The paper introduces a way of conceptualizing and measuring engagement that is known as ‘patient activation’. Patient activation provides a better understanding of why some patients engage fully with their health and others do not. More importantly, the study of patient activation has led to the design of many effective interventions, which in turn have led to greater patient participation and engagement in health care. Drawing on evidence from the United States and the
United Kingdom, the paper demonstrates how using patient activation to . . .