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Management of Tacit Knowledge and the Issue of Empowerment of Patients and Stakeholders in the Health Care Sector

Management of Tacit Knowledge and the Issue of Empowerment of Patients and Stakeholders in the Health Care Sector

Marc Jacquinet, Henrique Curado, Ângela Lacerda Nobre, Maria José Sousa, Marco Arraya, Rui Pimenta, António Eduardo Martins
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781522569152|ISBN10: 1522569154|EISBN13: 9781522569169
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6915-2.ch016
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Jacquinet, Marc, et al. "Management of Tacit Knowledge and the Issue of Empowerment of Patients and Stakeholders in the Health Care Sector." Healthcare Policy and Reform: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 314-338. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6915-2.ch016

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Jacquinet, M., Curado, H., Nobre, Â. L., Sousa, M. J., Arraya, M., Pimenta, R., & Martins, A. E. (2019). Management of Tacit Knowledge and the Issue of Empowerment of Patients and Stakeholders in the Health Care Sector. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Healthcare Policy and Reform: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 314-338). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6915-2.ch016

Chicago

Jacquinet, Marc, et al. "Management of Tacit Knowledge and the Issue of Empowerment of Patients and Stakeholders in the Health Care Sector." In Healthcare Policy and Reform: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 314-338. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6915-2.ch016

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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.

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