Strengthening patient and family engagement in healthcare — The New Haven Recommendations

The World Health Organization (WHO) has played a decisive role in initiating and supporting partnerships with patients, families and citizens [1 –4]. In 1986, WHO emphasized in its Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion [3] the relevance of reorienting health services towards health promotion and refocusing on the total needs of the individual. Building upon the Ottawa Charter, a feasibility study and first WHO-Model Project on health promoti on in and by hospitals was conducted in the late 1980s in Austria [5] and, later, a European Health Promoting Pilot project followed [6].

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - April 10, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Christina C. Wieczorek, Peter Nowak, Susan B. Frampton, J ürgen M. Pelikan Tags: Discussion Source Type: research