Patient empowerment: myth or reality?
Swaleh Toofany Senior lecturer, The faculty of health and human sciences at Thames Valley University, Slough
Swaleh Toofany examines the concept of empowerment in public health
AT THE MOST basic level, power can influence others or, as Wrong (1988) says, power defines the capacity of people to produce intended and foreseen effects on others.
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doi: 10.7748/nm.13.6.18.s13
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