(See also functional health literacy and critical health literacy, in this glossary) Interactive health literacy is the second level of empowerment and promotes self help, seizing of opportunities to develop individual skills. The focus here is the individual, its attitude and behavior. It is also more time oriented, meaning to help change individual perceptions, attitudes and knowledge.
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Management of Tacit Knowledge and the Issue of Empowerment of Patients and Stakeholders in the Health Care Sector
Marc Jacquinet (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), Henrique Curado (Politécnico do Porto, Portugal & Universidade do Minho, Portugal), Ângela Lacerda Nobre (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal), Maria José Sousa (Algarve University, Portugal), Marco Arraya (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), Rui Pimenta (Politécnico do Porto, Portugal), and António Eduardo Martins (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2394-9.ch017
Abstract
There is a growing literature on health and health care dedicated to empowerment of patients; but there is still a gap in the literature to conceptualize knowledge, to extend the discussion of the empowerment of the patients to the stakeholders. The discussion is at the level of managerial processes of empowerment and knowledge management related to health care. The present chapter starts with a review on empowerment, especially focused on the health sector. The following sections will develop a critical analysis of empowerment, mainly around the concept of tacit knowledge (Polanyi) and knowledge management. One key variable is the proximity of the actors involved in the empowerment process. This key variable is very much related to the tacitness issue of knowledge production and flows. The chapter extends the discussion of the empowerment of the patients to that of the stakeholders and the general debate about health literacy. A model is briefly described for the purpose of illustrating the learning process in a knowledge management implemented in health care.